Napoleon Bonaparte Love of a Polish Girl.
Poles looked to her to free Poland
During Napoleon Bonaparte's stay in Poland,
he had a passionate love affair with an
18 year old Polish girl named Maria Walewska.
Since the 1770's Poland had been divided
between Austria, Prussia and Russia. Many Poles
looked to Napoleon to free their country and
restore its . Maria was one of them.
The wife of and aging Polish count, she had
disguised herself as a peasant girl and stopped
Napoleon's carriage to beg for peace and
liberty for Poland. She then disappeared into
the crowd, but not before Napoleon had fallen
hopelessly in love. Demanding that his officers
locate her, Napoleon went to Warsaw, the Polish
capital. When Maria was finally found, Napoleon
sent her a special invitation to attend a ball
and enclosed a bouquet of flowers made of
diamonds. Maria flatly refused. She was a
very virtuous girl.
It seemed that all of Poland tried to change her
mind. Everyone believed that she alone
could persuade Napoleon to restore Poland to its
original boundaries and former glory. Even her
friends felt that it was here duty to
sacrifice her own feelings and become Napoleon's
mistress. Finally, unable to resist such
pressure, she gave in.
But then Maria actually fell in love with him.
She left her husband and made the winter of
1806-07 a very romantic one for Napoleon.
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Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
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