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Again every one crowded about her with congratulations. Some said: "He never even saw any of US. His eyes were all for YOU! They flashed fire as he looked at you." "You have conquered his heart," others said, "and you can do what you like with him. The salvation of Poland is in your hands." The company broke up at an early hour, but Mme. Walewska was asked to remain.
At last he died, and as mysteriously as he had come his body was taken away, nobody knew when, nobody where, and with it went the beautiful woman, his wife, of whom from that day to this I have never heard a word. Still the Gay Capital of France Its Environs Walewska and De Morny Thackeray in Paris A Pension Adventure Each of the generations thinks itself commonplace.
But his promise to restore Poland he never kept, and gradually she found that he had never meant to keep it. "I love your country," he would say, "and I am willing to aid in the attempt to uphold its rights, but my first duty is to France. I cannot shed French blood in a foreign cause." By this time, however, Marie Walewska had learned to love Napoleon for his own sake.
I have known my Paris now twice as long as Thackeray knew his Paris, and my Paris has been as interesting as his Paris, for it includes the Empire, the Siege and the Republic. I knew and sat for months at table with Comtesse Walewska, widow of the bastard son of Napoleon Bonaparte. The Duke de Morny was rather a person in his way and Gambetta was no slouch, as Titmarsh would himself agree.
A Parisian Pension The Widow of Walewska Napoleon's Daughter-in-Law The Changeless A Moral and Orderly City I have said that I knew the widow of Walewska, the natural son of Napoleon Bonaparte by the Polish countess he picked up in Warsaw, who followed him to Paris; and thereby hangs a tale which may not be without interest.
The visit of this lady to Fontainebleau recalls another of almost the same kind, but to describe which it is necessary that I take up the thread of events a little further back. This child resembled his Majesty so greatly that the report was started that the King of Rome had visited his father. Madame de Walewska remained only a short time at the Island of Elba.
Neither of these extraordinary men could do anything by halves, and we are not left in doubt as to the seventh heaven of happiness it would have been to the less flowery-worded sailor had he been given the least encouragement to pour out his adoration of Emma's goodness and beauty. He would have excelled Napoleon's picture of Madame Walewska.
Again every one crowded about her with congratulations. Some said: "He never even saw any of US. His eyes were all for YOU! They flashed fire as he looked at you." "You have conquered his heart," others said, "and you can do what you like with him. The salvation of Poland is in your hands." The company broke up at an early hour, but Mme. Walewska was asked to remain.
Walewska was startled, and her face grew hot with blushes. Did the emperor remember her escapade at Bronia? If so, how had he discovered her? Why should he seek her out and do her such an honor? "That, madam, is his imperial majesty's affair," Poniatowski told her. "I merely obey his instructions and ask your presence at the ball.
Walewska seized the jewels and flung them across the room with an order that they should be taken back at once to the imperial giver; but the letter, which was in the same romantic strain as the others, she retained. On that same evening there was another dinner, given to the emperor by the nobles, and Marie Walewska attended it, but of course without the diamonds, which she had returned.
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