Marie-Lætitia Bonaparte-Wyse

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Marie-Lætitia Bonaparte-Wyse

Marie-Lætitia Bonaparte-Wyse , called Marie de Solms (also Marie Studolmine Rattazzi ; born April 25, 1831 in Waterford , Ireland , † February 6, 1902 in Paris ), was a French writer .

life and work

Marie-Lætitia Bonaparte-Wyse was a daughter of Princess Lætitia Bonaparte (1804–1871) and thus a granddaughter of Lucien Bonaparte on her mother's side . Lætitia Bonaparte was married to the Irish politician Sir Thomas Wyse († 1862 as British envoy in Athens ), but separated from him a few years before the birth of their daughter Marie-Lætitia, so that her true father became a lover of her mother, the British army officer Captain Studholm John Hodgson (1805-1890), was.

Marie-Lætitia trained to be a teacher in Paris and in December 1848 married a wealthy Alsatian, Frédéric Joseph de Solms (1815–1863), who soon left her. As a very attractive woman, she led an independent life and opened a literary salon in Paris, in which Victor Hugo , Eugène Sue , François Ponsard and other important writers frequented. In 1852 she was on the orders of her related emperor Napoleon III. expelled from Paris and moved to Aix-les-Bains in Savoy . There she founded a new literary salon in her Chalet de Solms and between 1853 and 1857 had an intimate relationship with Eugène Sue that was considered scandalous. Dealing with many writers also led her to become active as a writer herself. After the annexation of Savoy by France in 1860, she returned to Paris and played an important role in the literary and social events of the time.

Shortly after the death of her husband Solms, Marie-Lætitia married the Italian statesman Urbano Rattazzi , whom she had met on her travels, in Turin in 1863 . Alone and with others, she published newspapers and wrote novels that betrayed her lust for emancipation, in particular Les mariages de la Créole (1864), which was confiscated in Paris. Because of this work she had to leave her home again in 1865; it then appeared in Brussels under the title La chanteuse (3rd edition 1882). At that time she wrote other novels including La réputation d'une femme (1861), Mademoiselle Million (1863), Les débuts de la forgeronne (1866), La Mexicaine (1866) and Le piège aux Maris (1867). She also wrote plays and involved her husband in a bad duel story because of the novel Bicheville ou le chemin du Paradis (1867), in which she pilloried Florentine society. Her books Rêve d'une ambitieuse (2 vols., 1868) and Florence contain a kind of autobiography ; portraits, chroniques, confidences (1870). Si j'étais pure (1868) is also partly autobiographical . After the death of her second husband in June 1873, she published his biography: Rattazzi et son temps (2 vols., 1881–87), which was later followed by Urbain Rattazzi, par un témoin des dix dernières années de sa vie (1902) .

From then on, Marie-Lætitia lived in Paris and entered into a third marriage in 1877 with the Spanish Ministerial Councilor Don Luis de Rute y Ginez (1844–1889). Now she published the poems Cara patria; échos italiens (1873) and L'ombre de la mort (1875) as well as the travel pictures L'Espagne moderne (1879) and Le Portugal à vol d'oiseau (1879). As early as 1858-60 in Aix she had published the political-literary magazine Les Matinées d'Aix-les-Bains . In Paris from 1886 onwards, under the pseudonym Baron de Stock, she followed up with the magazine Les Matinées Espagnoles , from which the Revue internationale emerged . Of her last works, the drama L'Aventurière des colonies (1885) and the novels La belle Juive, épisode du siège de Jerusalem (1882) and Énigme sans clef (1894) should be mentioned.

In 1889 Marie-Lætitia was widowed for the third time and in 1894 sold her Chalet de Solms to Marius Sammarcelli, a casino owner in Aix-les-Bains. She died in Paris in 1902 at the age of 70.

literature

Remarks

  1. ^ DG Paz: Wyse, Sir Thomas (1791–1862) . In Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , 2004, Vol. 60.
personal data
SURNAME Bonaparte-Wyse, Marie-Lætitia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 25, 1831
PLACE OF BIRTH Waterford , United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
DATE OF DEATH February 6, 1902
Place of death Paris