Princess Zofia Czartoryska (15 September 1778 – 27 February 1837) was a Polish

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Life

Zofia Czartoryska was born on 15 September, 1778, in Warsaw. She was the fifth child of Countess

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née Fleming and her husband Prince

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, though her father may actually have been Count

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. She ran a salon in Warsaw for Enlightenment era reform leaders of Poland-Lithuania. Czartoryska was regarded by her contemporaries as a great beauty and sat for numerous portraits. She married Stanisław Kostka Zamoyski on 20 May 1798, in

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. She is nicknamed "the mother of the Zamyoski house", as she gave birth to ten children: Konstanty (born in 1799), Andrzej Artur (1800), Jan (1802), Władysław (1803), Celina (1804),

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(1806), Zdzisław (1810), August (1811), Eliza (1818) and Stanisław (1820). Czartoryska engaged in charity work and founded a charity organisation in Warsaw called Warszawskie Towarzystwo Dobroczynności. Eight-years-old

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gave concerts to support the association. She was a recipient of the

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. Czartoryska wrote and published a handbook ''Rady dla córki'' ("advice for a daughter") for her daughter Jadwiga, who then went on to marry

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. The book covered such topics as what it means to be a pious woman and a good wife. The latest edition of the book was published in 2002. To alleviate her ill health, Czartoryska travelled abroad. She died on 27 February, 1837, in Florence., of

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. She was buried at Santa Croce, her funerary monument was created by sculptor

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Gallery

File:Portret Zofii Czartoryskiej.jpg, Portrait, author and date unknown File:Zofia Czartoryska .jpg, ''Zofia Czartoryska as Psyche'', Wincenty de Lesseur, 1797 File:Zofia Zamoyska.jpg, Miniature portrait by Waleria Tarnowska, 1803,

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File:Zofia z Czartoryskich Zamoyska- John Samuel Agar.jpg, Portrait by

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, 1804 File:Oko Zofii z Czartoryskich Zamoyskiej.jpg, Eye of Zofia Czartoryska, author and date unknown

References

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Zofia Czartoryska Princess Zofia Czartoryska (15 September 1778 – 27 February 1837) was a Polish szlachta, noblewoman. Life Zofia Czartoryska was born on 15 September, 1778, in Warsaw. She was the fifth child of Countess Izabela Czartoryska née Fleming and h ...

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