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See also:WALEWSKI, See also:ALEXANDRE See also:FLORIAN See also:JOSEPH See also:COLONNA, COIITE (1810-1868) , See also:French politician and diplomatist, was See also:born at Walewice near See also:Warsaw on the 4th of May 181o, the son of See also:Napoleon I. and his See also:mistress See also:Marie, Countess Walewski. At fourteen Walewski refused to enter the See also:Russian See also:army, escaping to See also:London and thence to See also:Paris, where the French See also:government refused his See also:extradition to the Russian authorities. See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis Philippe sent him to See also:Poland in 1830, and he was then entrusted by the leaders of the See also:Polish revolution with a See also:mission to London. After the fall of Warsaw he took out letters of See also:naturalization in See also:France and entered the French army, seeing some service in See also:Algeria. In 1837 he resigned his See also:commission and began to write for the See also:stage and for the See also:press. He is said to have collaborated with the See also:elder See also:Dumas in Mademoiselle de Belle-Isle, and a See also:comedy of his, L'Ecole du monde, was produced at the See also:Theatre See also:Francais in 184o. In that See also:year his See also:paper, Le See also:Messager See also:des chambres, was taken over by See also:Thiers, who sent him on a mission to See also:Egypt, and under the See also:Guizot See also:ministry he was sent to Buenos Aires to co-operate with the See also:British See also:minister See also:Lord Howden (See also:Sir J. Caradoc). The See also:accession of Louis Napoleon to the supreme See also:power in France guaranteed his career. He was sent as See also:envoy extra-See also:ordinary to See also:Florence, to See also:Naples and then to London, where he announced the coup d'etat to See also:Palmerston (q.v.). In 1855 Walewski succeeded Drouyn de Lhuys as minister of See also:foreign affairs, and acted as French plenipotentiary at the See also:Congress of Paris next year. When he See also:left the Foreign See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
Office in 186o it was to become minister of See also:state, an office which he held until 1863. Senator from 1855 to 1865, he entered the See also:Corps Legislatif in 1865, and was installed, by the See also:emperor's See also:interest, as See also:president of the Chamber. A revolt against his authority two years later sent him back to the See also:Senate. He died at See also:Strassburg on the 27th of See also:October 1868. He had been created a See also:duke in 1866, was amember of the See also:Academy of See also:Fine Arts and a See also:grand See also:cross of the See also:Legion of See also:Honour.
End of Article: WALEWSKI, ALEXANDRE FLORIAN JOSEPH COLONNA, COIITE (1810-1868)
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