Alexandre Colonna-Walewski
Alexandre Florian Joseph, Count Colonna-Walewski, was a Polish and French politician and diplomat, the unacknowledged son of French emperor Napoleon I.
Colonna-Walewski in 1860
Alexandre Walewski in 1832, portrait by school of George Hayter
Walewski and other participants at Crimean War peace negotiations, 1856– Congress of Paris by Edouard Dubufe
Count Walewski as president of Congress of Paris (1856)
The Congress of Paris is the name for a series of diplomatic meetings held in 1856 in Paris, France, to negotiate peace between the warring powers in the Crimean War that had started almost three years earlier.
Diplomats assembled at Congress of Paris - Painting by Edouard Dubufe
Épinal print of the sovereigns of Europe during the Congress of Paris, 1856
Picture of the territory affected by the Congress. In light green, to the left, is the area of the Danubian Principalities (Wallachia and Moldavia). In light green is the border of southern Bessarabia, which was transferred from Russia to Moldavia between the Danube River and Moldavia.