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Ewelina Hańska
Eveline Hańska (née Ewelina Rzewuska; 6 January c. 1805 – 11 April 1882) was a Polish noblewoman best known for her marriage to French novelist Honoré de Balzac. Born at the Wierzchownia estate in Volhynia (now Ukraine), Hańska married landowner Wacław Hański when she was a teenager. Hański, who was about 20 years her senior, suffered from depression. They had five children, but only a daughter, Anna, survived.
In the late 1820s, Hańska began reading Balzac's novels, and in 1832, she sent him an anonymous letter. This began a decades-long correspondence in which Hańska and Balzac expressed a deep mutual affection. In 1833, they met for the first time, in Switzerland. Soon afterward he began writing the novel Séraphîta, which includes a character based on Hańska.
After her husband died in 1841, a series of complications obstructed Hańska's marriage to Balzac. Chief of these was the estate and her daughter Anna's inheritance, both of which might be threatened if she married him. Anna married a Polish count, easing some of the pressure. About the same time, Hańska gave Balzac the idea for his 1844 novel Modeste Mignon. In 1850 they finally married, and moved to Paris, but he died six months later. Though she never remarried, she took several lovers, and died in 1882.
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Jean-François Gigoux, född den 8 januari 1806 i Besançon, död där den 12 december 1894, var en fransk målare.
Gigoux studerade i Italien och utförde kyrkliga och profana målningar, däribland Flykten till Egypten, Gravläggningen och Uppståndelsen (väggmålningar i Saint Gervais i Paris), vidare Leonardo da Vincis död (1833), Kleopatra prövar gift på sina slavar (1838), Konung Klodvigs dop (1844) och Napoleon aftonen före slaget vid Austerlitz (1807, i Besançon). I porträttfacket åstadkom han ypperliga saker (General Dwernicki, Louvren). Han tecknade även illustrationer till franska diktares verk ("Gil Blas" med flera) samt inlade stora förtjänster om litografin genom en mängd effektfullt utförda teckningar på sten (i synnerhet porträtt). Gigoux skrev Causeries sur les artistes de mon temps (1885).
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