Ewelina Hańska
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 .
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
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Individual evidence
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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 |