Alexandra Francis Rzewuska

Aleksandra Franciszka Lubomirska (nicknamed Rosalie by her father) (1788 in Kiev – 11 January 1865 in Warsaw) was a Polish aristocrat, artist and writer from the Lubomirski family.

In 1794 her mother, Rozalia, was living in Paris and was arrested during the Reign of Terror; her house was frequented by British spies and Girondin counter-revolutionaries.

[3] She returned to her father's house, the Lubomirski Palace in Opole Lubelskie, West Galicia (now in Lublin Voivodship, Poland.

[n 1] In around 1800 her tutor was the exiled Jean Vesque de Puttelange, previously an official in the government of the Habsburg Netherlands (now Belgium); his own country had been invaded in 1794 and annexed by the French Republic in 1795, a few months after her mother had been executed.

[4][5] According to the memoirs of Countess Varvara Golovina, the "extraordinary opening to her life seems to have been only a preparation for every virtue, and her mind is the flower of her soul.