The Journal of Countess Francoise Krasinska
ISBN 9780987153272
The journal of Françoise Krasinska begins with her as a young girl living comfortably with her parents at the court of Maleszów in southern Poland. She is happy and innocent, and nurses a crush on Prince Charles, pretender to the Polish throne. Françoise was related to nearly all the noblest families in Poland. Eminently beautiful, intelligent and witty, she lived a life whose escapades and fate set tongues wagging in every court in Europe.
Klementyna Tańska Hoffmanowa published the Journal in Polish in 1825. Its first English translation, unattributed and never before reprinted in book form, appeared in an Irish periodical in 1839. This edition combines that text with the fuller 1895 translation, taking the digressions and historical detail from the later version and restoring passages that only the 1839 text preserved. It is the most complete English version ever published. An introduction sets out the life of its author.
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