[1] The family moved to Geneva in 1832, where Maria was "the brilliant star of the household... striking in every sense".

Prince Louis-Napoleon (later Napoleon III) was reportedly among those in love with her, as was poet Juliusz Słowacki, who wrote a poem about her.

[9] In 1848 she married her first husband's lessee, Władysław Orpiszewski, and they had a son, but the boy died at age four.

[13] Frederick Niecks, Chopin's first exhaustive biographer, said the book was "more of the nature of a novel than of a biography".

[14] In 1912 he wrote a biography of his aunt, O Marii Wodzińskiej (About Maria Wodzińska), whose first book edition was published in 2015.