Ewelina Hańska

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Ewelina Hańska (born January 6, 1801 in Pohrebyschtsche , † April 10, 1882 in Paris ), born as Ewelina Rzewuska , was a Polish noblewoman who became known through her relationship with Honoré de Balzac .

Ewelina Hańska

Life

The young Ewelina Rzewuska had married the twenty years older Polish baron Wacław Hański and lived with him in a property in Wierzchownia . She had started reading Balzac's novels in the late 1820s . On February 26, 1832, Balzac received an anonymous letter from Hańska, signed "L'Etrangère" (The Stranger) , which marked the beginning of a decades-long correspondence.

Hańska and Balzac met for the first time in Neuchâtel, Switzerland, in September 1833, followed by a further meeting in Geneva in December and then in Vienna in 1835 . After the death of Count Hański in 1841, Balzac held out the marriage he wanted for several years; this only took place on March 14, 1850 when Balzac , who was already seriously ill, visited Berdyczew , in today's Ukraine . The couple drove back to Paris in April 1850 , where Balzac died on August 18, 1850. After his death, Eveline Hańska managed Balzac's estate. In the last 30 years of her life, Hańska was in a relationship with the French painter Jean-François Gigoux . She died in Paris on April 11, 1882.

literature

  • Honoré de Balzac: A reflection of my desire: Report of a trip to Russia 1847. Friedenauer Presse, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-932109-85-0 .
  • André Maurois : Prometheus or the life of Balzac . Econ, Vienna and Düsseldorf 1966 (also as Das Leben des Honoré Balzac. A biography. Diogenes, Zurich 1985, ISBN 3-257-21297-6 )
  • Stefan Zweig : Balzac. A biography. Paperback edition: Fischer, Frankfurt 1994, ISBN 3-596-22183-8
  • Juanita Helm Floyd: Les femmes dans la vie de Balzac. with 17 letters inédites de Madame Hanska . Translation of the letters into French and a preface by Catherine Radziwill . Paris: Plon, 1926

Web links

Commons : Ewelina Hańska  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Stefan Zweig: Balzac. A biography . P. 413ff
  2. ^ Stefan Zweig: Balzac. A biography . P. 509
personal data
SURNAME Hańska, Ewelina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hańska, Eveline; Rzewuska, Ewelina (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish noblewoman, partner of Honoré de Balzac
DATE OF BIRTH January 6, 1801
PLACE OF BIRTH Pohrebyschtsche
DATE OF DEATH April 10, 1882
Place of death Paris