#Walewski

[josephponiatowski]

It is 4rd may.

Yesterday, I luckily discovered that on 4rd may it is Aleksander Walewski’s birthday (don’t judge me I have dyscalculia so I have a hard time remembering anything number related)

So, Happy birthday Alexander Walewski…!

+ a meme I made months ago

[empirearchives]

Alexandre Walewski wanting to skip Wellington’s funeral

This is an excerpt from the Greville memoirs. According to Greville, Louis Napoleon, then President of France, ���ordered Walewski to attend the funeral” of the Duke of Wellington, who died in 1852.

“Count Walewski, then French Ambassador in London, expressed some reluctance to attend the funeral of the conqueror of Napoleon I [the Duke of Wellington], upon which Baron Brunnow said to him, ‘If this ceremony were intended to bring the Duke to life again, I can conceive your reluctance to appear at it; but as it is only to bury him, I don’t see you have anything to complain of.’”

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Source: The Greville Memoirs: A journal of the reign of Queen Victoria from 1852 to 1860. Date: November 21, 1852 (google books)

[empirearchives]

Have you seen his son? Because the dude had sideburns (at least I think they’re sideburns)

With sideburns being so popular at the time I tried to imagine what Napoleon would look like with them. So... yeah, that is what this is.

I wonder what he thought about this trend. Seriously why was this so popular? 😐

[napolebonasacc]

Different Portrayal’s of Napoleon’s Son Alexandre Walewski on screen.

-Conquest 1937

-Sacha Guitry’s Napoleon

--La caméra explore le temps" Marie Walewska

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Multimillionaire Count Nicolas Walewski.

Nicolas Walewski is a direct descendant of Napoleon I through Alexandre Colonna-Walewski, Napoleon’s illegitimate son with Countess Marie Walewska. He’s been a member of the board of Trustees and Vice President of the Fondation Napoléon since 2004

Can still see the uncanny resemblance,

[captainknell]

BOOK REPORT

Marie Walewska Napoleon's Great Love by Christine Sutherland was a nice break from the monotony of another giant Napoleon biography. At this point, I know how the story goes and they can get tedious at points. Yes, it was the same story but from a new and different perspective. From the views of Poland and specifically Marie Walewska, I saw a different side of the story. A country longing for Napoleon to be their savior. A young girl who hero worshipped the very man she became a mistress to.

It told of Marie's beginnings and her first marriage to the old Count Anastase Colonna Walewska, the birth of her first son Anthony, how she came to meet Napoleon, captivated him, and was encouraged to become his mistress for Poland's cause. She was reluctant at first but continued to go and see him, for Poland. It seemed that she and Napoleon were truly happy when they were together and it makes me prefer Marie over his wives and any of his other mistresses. She became pregnant and it was heartbreaking for me to read how Napoleon took such good care of her, but he was already planning his divorce from Josephine and marriage to Marie Louise, now that it was confirmed that he could father children. (He had doubts about his son with Eleonore Deneulle de la Plaigne.) Their son, Alexandre Florian Joseph was born and officially called the son of Count Walewski to prevent scandal on Marie's part. Napoleon made sure to provide for Marie and his son and even visited with them many times throughout the years, including when he was in exile on Elba. Once Napoleon was defeated and sent to St. Helena, Marie finally remarried (she had gotten a divorce, but waited until after Count Walewski died, and there was no more chance with Napoleon). She married Napoleon's cousin, Phillipe-Antione d'Ornano. They had a son, Rudolph Augusta, shortly before she died at the young age of 31. Napoleon did not learn of her death before he died.

It was a very good book and I learned a lot. Not just about Marie Walewska, but Poland as well! I would definitely recommend having some background knowledge on Napoleon before reading.

[panmikola]

Edgard Maxence - Portrait du Comte Roger Colonna Walewski

[metterbiotchsystem]

What’s hilarious about Alexandre Walewski is even before the DNA Evidence of his descendants in recent times proving he was the son of Napoleon, most historians throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries never doubted or said “well he was the rumored” , nah everyone’s like yeah it’s his son.

Even when Alexandre tried to keep up the facade that Athanasius was his real father. Him being Napoleon’s son must of been an huge open secret. Like everytime he was asked about it he would wink at the camera. lol

Napoleon just ctrl+c ctrl+v’s his genes, huh?

[malchiusoportone]

Virginia's return in society after the Compiègne accident happened at the masked ball organized by the count and countess Walewski in the Foreign ministry on 17 February [1857]. For the occasion Virginia had come up with a costume that would once again be noted for its audacity and would arouse endless comments. The count Imbert de Saint-Armand, who had disguised himself as a page in the Louis XVI style, conveys us the effect of that theatrical appearence at the peak of the ball: «In the hall enters a woman and suddenly all gazes fall upon her. She's the fashionable beauty par excellence, the Countess of Castiglione [...] She's dressed as the dame of hearts, symbolic costume that the Countess "drags on", as Racine would say. On her head shines a crown of hearts. The wonderful hairdoo swells around the forehead and falls back like a cascade on her neck. The skirt and bodice are wrapped by a chain made of hearts. The train is fixed to the hip. It's a dress out of a fairy tale.»

Never had Virginia worn a more audacious disguise: aside from not adhering to the rules of modesty–it did not include a corset–, the dress expressed «a vibrant, tangible protest against the crinoline», defended with a vengeance by the empress [Eugenie de Montijo]. With the usual crudeness he befit to women, Viel-Castel commented on the pompous perfection of her breasts and reported the jest not less crude of a guest: «Be warned, countess, shortly the men will find their clothes too tight!»

— Benedetta Craveri (2021). La Contessa: Virginia Verasis di Castiglione

[dzismis]

Nagroda Nobla 2024 z fizjologii lub medycyny: Victor Ambros i Gary Ruvkun za znaczenie mikroRNA

Zgromadzenie Noblowskie w Karolinska Institutet postanowiło przyznać Nagrodę Nobla w dziedzinie fizjologii lub medycyny za rok 2024 wspólnie prof. Victorowi Ambrosowi i Gary’emu Ruvkunowi „za odkrycie mikroRNA i jego roli w potranskrypcyjnej regulacji genów”. Paweł Walewski O Nagrodzie Nobla Ustanowiona w testamencie przez Alfreda Nobla (szwedzkiego przemysłowca i wynalazcę dynamitu) nagroda…

[josephponiatowski]

Oh boy i feel so active lately!

Drew this depressed-looking guy. Hope you all Aleksander Walewski enjoyers enjoy this.

If you don’t know who this guy is… idk check the info on internet if you want, because I don’t want to info dump here.

He’s just a sad guy. Very sad guy. At least that’s what he looks like in most photos.

(he’s sad because i called him dumb. Sorry Walewski)

[empirearchives]

Checkered suit, bow tie, top hat, right hand in pocket, coat pushed back seductively, showing off handy-dandy pocket watch, walking cane ready.

He was thriving, glowing.

[the-distantprince]

Here are some of the illustrations I’ve done so far (i should add perithecia)! I have Lichens of the North Woods by Joe Walewski. I wish I got a guide that covers New York better.

I have yeast on there as it’s an example of a symbiotic partner that’s not part of the standard pair or triad. It’s a Tremella yeast that is in a symbiotic relationship with and the yellow green lichen Lethara vulpina on the left (as I understand it)

Hi I’m planning out a lichen zine. I’m hoping to have an approachable but more in depth little booklet. Do you have any suggestions for what info I should include and what I can cut?

I’m torn on using specific names for things like reproductive structures and going into more of the subtypes of body structures.

This is a debate I (and many other lichenologists) have all the time within ourselves. They are so so many specific terms. And there are specific terms to describe those specific terms. And it never ends. So where to meet in the middle? A few terms I think are necessary to introduce:

Symbiosis

Mycobiont (Ascomycete) and Photobiont (green algae vs cyanobacteria)

Thallus, its layers (cortex, photobiont layer, medulla, rhizines), and the major growth forms (foliose, fruticose, crustose, squamulose)

Ascoma/fruiting bodies (apothecia and perithecia)

Asexual propagules (isidia, soredia, phyllidia)

Substrate (corticolous, saxicolous, terricolous)

I have a great little lichen field guide written by Dr. Erin Tripp, Field Guide to the Lichens of White Rocks (Boulder, Colorado), that I bought specifically because I think she does a masterful job of balancing accuracy and approachability. I recommend checking it out! Good luck! Sounds like a great project! Consider me an enthusiastic supporter.

[napolebonasacc]

All of Napoleon’s Descendents Who fought and or Died in the (Great War) World War I

1. Daniel Napoléon Jean Fernand Mesnard (1896 - 1917)

Daniel Napoléon Jean Fernand Mesnard was born in 1896 in Serignan (Hérault). He is the son of Armand Mesnard and Charlotte Fany Léon , daughter of Count Charles Léon and granddaughter of Napoleon I and Louise Catherine Eléonore Denueule Delaplaigne. During WW1 Daniel became a corporal in the 17th Chasseurs Regiment. He died for France on the 17th of July 1917, at the age of 20, at Fort Pompelle, killed at the head of a machine gun section near Reims (Marne). He was buried on April 22, 1921. He rests with his great-grandmother, Louise Catherine Eléonore Denueule Delaplaigne. He was unmarried and without issue

2. Captain Louis Napoléon (Count) Mathéus (1878-1915)

Son of Count Frédéric Mathéus, and his wife Eugénie Colonna-Walewska and Great Grandson of Napoléon and Marie Walewska.

Louis was a Captain in the 29th Regiment of Dragoons, He died in action, marking him as a "Mort pour la France" (died for France), he was aged 37 years old. He was married and does have descendants.

3.Lieutenant Colonel Charles (Count) Colonna-Walewski (1848 - 1916)

Charles as Lieutenant Colonel

Charles-Zanobi-Rodolphe, was born the second son of Count Alexandre Colonna-Walewski, and Countess Marianne di Ricci in Firenze, Toscana, Italy. And grandson of Napoléon and Marie Walewska. His father Count Walewski was Foreign minister of his cousin Napoléon III. Him and his two sisters along with the nieces of the empress and the son of doctor Conneau - were the main playmates of the Imperial Prince.

Young Charles around the period of the Franco Prussian war

He took service in the active army (1870-1871), in the Foreign Legion (1871-1873) and then in the infantry and served Emperor Napoléon III during the Franco Prussian war of 1870. He would have his first military career, completed in 1897 at the rank of battalion commander, in the National Guard. He was an officer of race and man of the world, he served as a model for Marcel Proust for his prince of Borodino in "In Search of Lost Time" He would serve as squadron chief of the 35th and ended his career with the rank of lieutenant-colonel of the 131st Line Infantry Regiment.

At the outbreak of the First World War , aged 66, he asked to go to the front. He was quickly assigned to command a territorial infantry regiment in the war zone. He was killed in combat on October 2, 1916 in Villers-Cotterêts, at the age of 68.

4. André Alexandre Maurice (Count) Colonna-Walewski (1871 - 1954)

Was the son of Alexandre Colonna Walewski II (half brother of Charles) and his wife Jeanne Sala, Therefore the great grandson of Napoléon I and Marie Walewska, and their son via the tragedienne Rachel Félix.

Graduating as an officer from the Saint -Maixent Infantry School , he prepared for a military career. He participated twice in the Great War in the 66th Infantry regiment, and Walewski who was the Co-founder in 1905 of the "Autoplace" taxis, (more commonly called "G7” a company in existence today in France) because of their registration, he was one of the organizers of the "Taxis de la Marne" operation strategy . He then engaged, despite his age, and was wounded in combat and was decorated several times during the conflict.

His wife was Marie Molinos, daughter of a rich industrialist Léon Isidore Molinos. The current French Walewski’s are descendent from his two sons Antoine and Roger.

5. Fernand (count)Léon (1861 -1918)

Napoleons grandson Fernand ,Son of Count Léon served in the 19th Infantry Regiment he would die in the final year of the war. He was married but had no children.

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[Second Empire Court Album of Napoleon III: cartes-de-visite]

[napoleondidthat]

What do you think of napoleon's illegitimate son Alexandre Walewski? He certainly seems to be as capable as his father. Do you think, if he had been born legitimately, he'd make as good an emperor as Napoleon?

I like Alexandre Walewski. He was, from what I can gather, a decent statesman. He has a lot of irony in his life, like he attended the state funeral of Wellington’s, walked in his funeral cortege and was friends with him. His wife’s mother commissioned one of my favorite Napoleon portraits. He wasn’t as firey as his father. His second wife said when he left office, he only took the papers he came with and was honest. His wife was a mistress of Napoleon III apparently.