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Anna Potocka
ANNA POTOCKA (1776-1867) was a Polish noblewoman and diarist. She was born Anna Tyszkiewicz on March 26, 1779 in Warsaw, Poland, the daughter of Ludwik Tyszkiewicz and Konstancja Poniatowska, who w...visualizza altroANNA POTOCKA (1776-1867) was a Polish noblewoman and diarist. She was born Anna Tyszkiewicz on March 26, 1779 in Warsaw, Poland, the daughter of Ludwik Tyszkiewicz and Konstancja Poniatowska, who was the niece of King Stanislaw August and one of the closest friends of the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord. Anna grew up in Bialystok under the care of a French governess at the court of her cousin, Izabela Branicka, sister of King Stanislaw August. Anna married Aleksander Stanislaw Potocki on 15 May 1805 in Vilnius, but divorced him in 1821. She then married Count Stanislaw Dunin-Wasowicz, who was a Polish general and Napoleon’s bodyguard and aide-de-camp during his 1812 Russian Campaign. Anna’s diary, which was written in the French language between the years 1794-1820 and published in its Polish translation in 1898, is regarded as an important historical source. She died in Paris, France on August 16, 1867, aged 91.
CASIMIR STRYIENSKI (1853-1912) was a French-Polish author and editor. He is perhaps best-known for the editing the autobiography of Stendhal, titled Souvenirs d’égotisme (Memoirs of an Egotist), published in 1892, as well as various books in the French language on the reign of Louis XV.
LIONEL STRACHEY (1864-1927) was a British author and translator of several memoirs of 18th-century French artists, including Memoirs of Madame Vigee Lebrun (1903) and Memoirs of a Contemporary, Being Reminiscences by Ida Saint-Elme (1903). He also translated Memoirs of an Arabian Princess from Zanzibar (1907), which tells the life story of Sayyida Salme, Princess of Zanzibar and Oman.visualizza meno