Napoleon and Marie’s affair, one of the most famous love stories of all time, influenced their destinies and possibly precipitated Napoleon’s downfall. Sometimes, it is difficult to know what belongs to Napoleon and Marie’s private life and what relates to general history, to Napoleon’s destiny or to that of Poland and of France.


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Sources/ Further reading
Walewska, Marie (1786–1817) | Encyclopedia.com