Word: walewska
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...matters that required an imperious technique, Napoleon dropped duplicity overboard and went straight to the point. At a ball in Warsaw he saw his future mistress, Marie Walewska, for the first time, and brusquely gave her the imperial works: "I saw no one but you, I admired no one but you, I want no one but you. Answer me at once, and assuage the impatient passion of 'N.' " Only with his wife Josephine, whom he wooed and married before his own greatness was assured, did he show any trace of human frailty. "Had I a heart so base...