Marie-Anne Walewska one after another of the ladies at court, but she remained his only serious mistress until their relationship ended in 1861. Walewska succeeded Pauline de Bassano as "dame d'honneur" in 1868. Marie-Anne Walewska Marie-Anne Walewska (1823–1912), was a French courtier and royal mistress. She is known for her relationship to emperor Napoleon III of France in 1857–1861. She served as "dame d'honneur" to empress Eugénie de Montijo in 1868–1870. She was born to the Italian count Zanobi di Ricci and princess Isabelle Poniatowski-Luci (illegitimate daughter of the last king of Poland's nephew). She married the Polish count (later duke) Alexandre
Marie-Louise de Beauvoir Marie-Louise de Beauvoir Marie-Louise de Beauvoir née "Cousin" (17 August 1776, Pas-de-Calais-1855), was a Belgian pioneer educator. She was the founder of the first secular school for girls in Belgium, the «Maison d’éducation de demoiselles» in Liége, which was to be regarded as the perhaps most fashionable girls school in the country, and was its manager in 1816-1852. One of her students was the pioneer educator Léonie de Waha, who founded a college for girls, "l'école supérieure de demoiselles" (1868, from 1878 known as "lycée Léonie de Waha"). She was married to the French politician Louis-Etienne Beffroy de Beauvoir, and