Countess Françoise Krasinska (1743–1796)

Countess Françoise Krasinska, also known as Franciszka Corvin-Krasińska, was the daughter of a noble Polish family. Her parents were Count Stanisław Corvin-Krasiński and his wife Aniela (Angela) Humiecka. She was educated in Warsaw and made her debut at the Polish court. In 1760, she married in secret Charles of Saxony, Duke of Courland, a younger son of King Augustus II of Poland. As she did not belong to a reigning royal house, she was never publicly recognized as his wife and never shared his title. The couple had one child, Princess Maria Christina of Saxony, born in 1770, through whom Franciszka became the great-grandmother of King Victor Emmanuel of Italy. Franciszka's journal was translated by Kasimir Dziekonska and published in 1889. A novel called The Journal of Countess Françoise Krasinska was written by Klementyna Tanska Hoffman, a Polish children's author.