Rachel Félix
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Élisabeth Félix, better known only as Mademoiselle or Madame Rachel or simply Rachel, was a French actress. She became a prominent figure in French society, and was the mistress of, among others, Napo
Portrait of Mlle Rachel by William Etty, 1840s
Portrait by Joseph Kriehuber
Rachel Félix on her deathbed, 1858
Rachel in Lady Macbeth (1849), Charles Louis Müller – Musée d'Art et d'Histoire du Judaïsme
Alexandre Colonna-Walewski
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Alexandre Florian Joseph, Count Colonna-Walewski, also Count of the Empire, was a Polish and French politician and diplomat, the unacknowledged son of French emperor Napoleon I.
Rachel Félix
…became a prominent figure in French society, and was the mistress of, among others, Napoleon III and Prince Napoléon, both nephews of Napoleon I, and of Alexandre Colonna-Walewski, the illegitimate son of Napoleon I. Efforts by newspapers to publish pictures of her on her deathbed led to the introduction of privacy rights into…
Colonna-Walewski in 1860
Alexandre Walewski in 1832, portrait by school of George Hayter
Walewski and other participants at Crimean War peace negotiations, 1856 – The Congress of Paris by Edouard Dubufe
Count Walewski as president of Congress of Paris (1856)