Marie Walewska

Maria Walewska ( born December 7, 1786 in Kiernozia at Łowicz, † December 11, 1817 in Paris) from the house Laczynska was Countess of Ornano, the mistress of Napoleon I and mother of their son Alexandre Colonna Walewski -.

Life

Maria Walewska was born as Maria Laczynska on December 7, 1786 in Kiernozia at Łowicz daughter of Count Mateusz Łączyński and Ewa Zaborowska and as a 18- year-old with the 70 -year-old Graf Anastasius Colonna Walewski Walewicz - married, of which they had a son in 1805. The wealthy Earl was very jealous because his wife was very swarmed. Her family had urged to the marriage according to the riches of the count, and the couple lived on the land. The honor of the invitation to the reception of Napoleon in Warsaw could not refuse the Earl, however.

1807 met the Polish countess Napoleon Bonaparte at a ball in Warsaw. Maria Walevska initially rejected him, in a first private meeting, they agreed only to pressure Polish patriots and her husband. Maria followed her lover out for seven years, she was named by the French army " his Polish wife." Your happiest time she spent with Napoleon Bonaparte in 1807 at Schloss Finckenstein in West Prussia. She avoided to meet Napoleon in public and went to meetings after Finckenstein to her brother in the car imposed the page.

When Mary became pregnant in 1809, Napoleon separated from his wife Joséphine, now that the fertility of the Emperor had been established. Napoleon asked her husband, who had long been separated from it to the recognition of his child. This gave the child his name, although Florian Alexander Joseph could never be his son. Could marry a mistress Napoleon political reasons not, instead he married the daughter of the Austrian emperor, Marie Louise, and separated from Maria Walevska. She was asked by Napoleon an elegant house in the Rue de Montmorency available where servants took care of their physical well-being. The little son was wearing a Napoleon primogeniture on possessions near Naples, the services each year 170,000 franc profit.

Their son of Mary and Napoleon, Alexandre Colonna Walewski -, later became Foreign Minister in the government of his cousin Napoleon III. , The nephew of Napoleon.

Maria Walevska wanted to Napoleon's request, this visit to St. Helena, at last but could not make up, they can also be received. The historical event was filmed several times. Previously, she had seen one last time on Elba shortly after the death of her husband and in her new marriage.

1816 married Maria in Brussels Count Philippe -Antoine d' Ornano, a cousin of Napoleon I. and lived with him in Liege. After her, the British King George III. had given permission to visit Napoleon, she persuaded her husband to visit him and to drive 1817 in the South Atlantic. However, it was out of this arduous journey nothing more since she died after the birth of her third son on December 11, 1817 in Paris at the consequences of kidney stones.

Film and Television

• Greta Garbo plays in the American film Conquest ( Maria Walewska ) of 1937, the main role.

• In the miniseries Napoleon by Yves Simoneau Mary Walevska of Alexandra Maria Lara was played.