Ewelina Hańska

Evelyne Hańska (born Ewelina Rzewuska ), Hańska countess, born in Pohrebyszcze close to Kiev the January 6th 1801, died with Paris the April 10th 1882, is noble a Polish.

Biography

Sister of the writer Henryk Rzewuski, promoter of the historical novel to the Walter Scott in Poland; she married in 1820 the count Hanski, rich twenty years landowner her elder. Together they had several children whose only girl survived.

Withdrawn in its field of in Ukraine, it was very related to the Mysticisme and read many French novels, which brought it to works of Honore de Balzac of which it became an enthusiastic admiror.

From 1832, it entered into with the author correspondance which lasted ten seven years. Balzac and Mrs Hanska met for the first time at the edge of the Neuchâtel Lake. The writer fell madly in love with this brown potelée twenty-nine years and the countess did not remain insensitive to her charm (it found that it resembled his brother). Both were found in several towns of Europe, but always the countess refused with its sighing.

Become widowed in 1841, it hesitated a long time before accepting to finally marry it in 1850, six months before its death.

It regulated with difficulty the succession of Balzac which left behind him many debts. But it remained in Paris where it bound later with Champfleury and with the painter Jean Gigoux.

She died in Paris in 1882.

The business Mirbeau Octave

In 1907, Octave Mirbeau shamefully calumniated it in a chapter entitled , included in its account of voyage in car, the 628-E8 . Ignoramus that Anna Hańska, countess of Mniszech, the girl resulting from a first marriage of the countess, were still in life and lived withdrawn with the convent of the Ladies of the Cross Rue of Vaugirard, Mirbeau believed all the witnesses of the life of Balzac disappeared. Applicant to bring back confidences of the painter Jean Gigoux heard in the workshop of Auguste Rodin, it writes that, during the anguish of the large novelist, Mrs Hańska received her Gigoux lover in the close room. Learning, before even the publication of the book, the existence of this chapter by the press, the Mniszech countess wrote in Mirbeau to request it to give up publishing it. By respect for a concerned old woman of the honor of his/her mother, Mirbeau agreed to remove in extremis the accused chapter, which was published only after its death, because it should have supported two lawsuits in slandering which it had lost, not having the shade of a proof, and because the book had been seized.

Republished in its entirety in 1937 by Fasquelle, then in 1989 and 1999, the Death of Balzac is especially devoted to the criticism of the biographies of Balzac (those of Théophile Gautier, Leon Gozlan, inter alia). Mirbeau considers it regrettable that the only qualified Balzac biographer, the Viscount Charles de Spoelberch de Lovenjoul, precisely did not write a biography, and it is lengthily delayed on the defects of the author of the human Comedy .

But it does not have a claim with historical truth and does not bring anything on the countess. He testifies especially to the misogyny of Mirbeau and his tumultuous relationship with his own wife, old théâtreuse the Alice Regnault, for which he is avenged by Mrs. Hanska interposed.

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