Marie Bonaparte-Wyse
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| Marie Bonaparte-Wyse | |
|---|---|
| Princess de Solms | |
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| Born | 25 April 1831 Waterford, Ireland |
| Died | 6 February 1902 Paris |
| Burial | Aix-les-Bains |
| Spouse | Frédéric Joseph de Solms Urbano Rattazzi |
| Issue | Alexis de Solms Romana Rattazzi Teresa de Rute Dolores de Rute |
| House | House of Bonaparte |
| Father | Thomas Wyse |
| Mother | Princess Letizia Bonaparte |
Marie-Lætitia de Solms née Bonaparte-Wyse (25 April 1831 – 6 February 1902), was a
Biography
She was born in
She was educated in Paris. In December 1848, aged seventeen, Marie (secretly called Marie-Studholmine) married Frédéric Joseph de Solms (1815–63), a rich gentleman from Strasbourg who soon left her to go to America. Marie, known as the "Princess de Solms", remained with her mother, who kept a brilliant salon in Paris frequented by Victor Hugo, Eugène Sue, the younger Alexandre Dumas, and other writers.
In the early 1850s Marie had an affair with Count Alexis de Pommereu that produced a son in 1852. In February 1853, French authorities ordered her expulsion from the
In August 1853 Marie settled at
In 1859 Napoleon III's profligate cousin,
She was an early woman journalist, and through Sainte-Beuve, Marie contributed to Le Constitutionnel under the pen name "Baron de Stock". She also wrote for the Pays and the Turf. After Savoy was annexed to France (1860) as another part of the agreement between Napoleon III and Cavour, Marie went back to Paris where she played a prominent part in the literary and social events of the time. She gathered in her salon men of all shades of opinion. In 1863, her husband having died, she remarried the Piedmontese statesman Urbano Rattazzi, and lived with him in Italy where she was known as "Divina Fanciulla". After his death in June 1873, Madame Rattazzi returned to Paris, and a few months later married her Spanish friend, under-secretary Don Luis de Rute y Ginez (1844–89), whom she also outlived. Marie died a widow in 1902 in Paris.
She had one son, Alexis de Solms (1852–1927), fathered by her lover, Count Alexis de Pommereu; one daughter, Romana Rattazzi (1871–1943), by her second husband; and two adopted daughters, Teresa de Rute (1883–89) and Dolores de Rute (1885–88), with her third husband.
She was buried in Aix-les-Bains (France).
Writings
Her writings consist of miscellaneous sketches, verses, plays, and novels, such as Si j'etais reine (1868) and Les mariages de la créole (1866), reprinted under the title La chanteuse (1870). Her 1867 novel Bicheville, a thinly disguised attack on the society of
In 1881 she edited Rattazzi et son temps, and in the last two or three years of her life published two volumes of her own memoirs, and edited the Nouvelle revue internationale, to which she also contributed a significant amount.
References
- ^ D. G. Paz, "Wyse, Sir Thomas (1791–1862)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 accessed 7 Nov 2011
Literature
- Bridges, Peter. Pen of Fire: John Moncure Daniel (Kent, Oh.: Kent State University Press, 2002)
- Dictionnaire du Second Empire (Paris: Librairie Artheme Fayard, 1995), 1205
- Grand Dictionnaire Universel du XIX Siecle (Larouse) (Paris: Slatkine, 1982), 13:730
- Grierson, Parisian Portraits (New York, 1913)
- Rines, George Edwin, ed. (1920). . Encyclopedia Americana.
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Rattazzi, Urbano". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 22 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 919.
External links
- Madame Rattazzi (1873). Cara patria. Paris: Librairie des bibliophiles. p. 1.
- Marie de Solms (1858). Eugène Sue, photographié par lui-même. Geneva: C.-L. Sabot.
- Marie Rattazzi (1866). Les mariages de la créole. Brussels: s.n. p. 5.
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