#alexandre walewski

Yesterday, I luckily discovered that on 4rd may it is Aleksander Walewski’s birthday (don’t judge me I have dyscalculia so I have a hard time remembering anything number related)

So, Happy birthday Alexander Walewski…!

+ a meme I made months ago

Drew this depressed-looking guy. Hope you all Aleksander Walewski enjoyers enjoy this.

If you don’t know who this guy is… idk check the info on internet if you want, because I don’t want to info dump here.

He’s just a sad guy. Very sad guy. At least that’s what he looks like in most photos.

Catherine "Elise" Joséphine Marie Colonna-Walewska

Elise Walewska, born on December 15, 1849 in Florence (Italy), was the eldest surviving daughter of Count Alexandre Colonna Walewski and Marie-Anne Alexandra di Ricci.

Making her the granddaughter of Emperor Napoleon and countess Maria Walewska.

When she was younger her and her siblings was the playmates of the Prince Imperial (son of Napoleon III)

In 1871, after her father had died and she lived with her mother at 9 avenue d'Antin in Paris. She married Marie Victor Félix, Count of Bourqueney, on October 9, 1871 in Paris (8th arrondissement) in the presence of Félix, Baron of Bourqueney, 75-year-old uncle of the groom, Ernest Charles Léon Leclerc, Marauis of Juiané, deputy of Sarthe, cousin of the groom, Certain François Marcelin

Canrobert, Marshal of France, and Ernest Arrighi de Casanova, Duke of Padua.

This is an excerpt from the Greville memoirs. According to Greville, Louis Napoleon, then President of France, “ordered Walewski to attend the funeral” of the Duke of Wellington, who died in 1852.

“Count Walewski, then French Ambassador in London, expressed some reluctance to attend the funeral of the conqueror of Napoleon I [the Duke of Wellington], upon which Baron Brunnow said to him, ‘If this ceremony were intended to bring the Duke to life again, I can conceive your reluctance to appear at it; but as it is only to bury him, I don’t see you have anything to complain of.’”

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Checkered suit, bow tie, top hat, right hand in pocket, coat pushed back seductively, showing off handy-dandy pocket watch, walking cane ready.

No one speak to me

The Roosevelts befriended Napoleon’s grandchildren, the children of Alexandre Walewski. Walewski not only looked a lot like Napoleon, but apparently had a very similar voice.

Source: Geoffrey C. Ward, Before the Trumpet: Young Franklin Roosevelt, Pg. 41

Alexander Walewski Penguin growth stages

Haha get it?

…It’s because he is a very penguin shaped fella 🐧

It was a good drawing practice actually. This sketch is not perfect, but at least I enjoyed drawing this :)