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 Goslich of the teacher Karl Kuhls, Director of the School in Riga and Königsberg and his wife Emma, née Fröhlich from Memel. From this time on she published her contributions mainly under the name Marie Kuhls or Marie Kuhls-Goslich. In 1911 the Kuhls-Goslich couple moved to Potsdam to the Bismarckstraße 9, and in 1912 to the Albrechtstraße 3. After a divorce from Karl Kuhls, whose illegitimate son Hans Kuhls (born 11 March 1915) she adopted, her address from July 1918 was Potsdamerstraße 84a, Berlin, and later Alten Königstr.1. At the end of the 1920s she moved to Geltow, living first with