Izabela Czartoryska
| Izabela Czartoryska | |
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Portrait by Alexander Roslin
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| Spouse(s) | Adam Kazimierz Czartoryski |
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| Noble family | House of Czartoryski |
| Father | Georg Detlev von Flemming |
| Mother | Antonina Czartoryska |
| Born |
3 March 1746 Warsaw, Poland |
| Died | 15 July 1835 (aged 89) Wysocko, Austrian Empire |
Princess Izabela Dorota Czartoryska (née Fleming; 3 March 1746 – 15 July 1835) was a Polish noblewoman, writer, art collector, and founder of Poland's first museum, the Czartoryski Museum in Kraków.
She was the daughter of Count Georg Detlev von Flemming (Polish: Hrabia Jerzy Detloff Fleming) and Princess Antonina Czartoryska.
On 18 November 1761, in Wołczyn, she married Prince Adam Kazimierz Czartoryski, thus becoming a princess.
She was rumored to have had an affair with the Russian ambassador to Poland, Nikolai Vasilyevich Repnin, who was alleged to have fathered her son Adam Jerzy Czartoryski.
She had also an affair with the Duke de Lauzun, who says himself in his "Mémoires" he fathered her second son Konstanty Adam.
In Paris in 1772 she met Benjamin Franklin, subsequently a leader of the American Revolution, and the French philosophers Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Voltaire, who were bringing new ideas to the old order.
In 1775, together with her husband, Czartoryska completely transformed the Czartoryski Palace at Puławy into an intellectual and political meeting place. Her court was one of the most liberal and progressive in the Commonwealth, although some aspects of her behavior also caused scandals.
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