Guillaume Apollinaire

Guillaume Apollinaire (né Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary de Kostrowicki herb. Wąż. Apollinaire est en réalité - jusqu'à sa naturalisation en 1916 - son 4e prénom) est un poète et écrivain français, né sujet polonais de l'Empire russe. D'après sa fiche militaire, il est né le 26 août 1880 à Rome et mort pour la France le 9 novembre 1918 à Paris.

Il est considéré comme l'un des poètes français les plus importants du début du XXe siècle, auteur de poèmes tels que Zone, La Chanson du Mal-Aimé, Mai ou encore, ayant fait l'objet de plusieurs adaptations en chanson au cours du siècle, Le Pont Mirabeau. Son œuvre érotique (dont principalement un roman et de nombreux poèmes) se trouve être également passée à la postérité. Il expérimenta un temps la pratique du calligramme (terme de son invention, quoiqu'il ne soit pas l'inventeur du genre lui-même, désignant des poèmes écrits en forme de dessins et non de forme classique en vers et strophes). Il fut le chantre de nombreuses avant-gardes artistiques de son temps, notamment du cubisme à la gestation duquel il participa, et poète et théoricien de l'Esprit nouveau1, et sans doute un précurseur majeur du surréalisme dont il a forgé le nom.

---

Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary "Apollinaire" Kostrowicki was a French poet, playwright, short story writer, novelist, and art critic of Polish-Belarusian descent. Apollinaire is considered one of the foremost poets of the early 20th century, as well as one of the most impassioned defenders of Cubism and a forefather of Surrealism.

His mother, Angelika Kostrowicka (Wąż clan, or Angelica from Wąż-Kostrowicki), was born in Nowogródek in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, belonging to the Russian Empire (today Navahrudak in Belarus) in a family of Polish nobility . Living in Rome with her charms and play, she has an unwanted pregnancy. He was born on August 25, 1880, but was declared to the mayor's office on the 26th under the Italian name Dulcigny, an unknown father and a mother who wanted to remain anonymous, Angelika recognizing him a few months later in front of a notary under the name of Guglielmo Alberto Wladimiro Alessandro Apollinare of Kostrowitzki.

According to a hypothesis, his father would be an Italian officer, Francesco Flugi of Aspermont. Could francesco Flugi be Alberto Eugenio Giovanni.father? In 1882, she gives him as brother or half-brother (the uncertainty remains) Alberto Eugenio Giovanni. The family moved to Monaco in 1887 where his mother was stuck by the police as a gallant woman under the name of Olga Kostrowitzky, probably earning a living as a coach in the new casino.

Guillaume is placed in a boarding house and studies at the Marists College Saint-Charles of Monaco from 1887 to 1895 and is enrolled in high schools in Cannes and Nice where he is a good student, pious and docile but fails to baccalaureate. In 1899, he spends the summer in the small Walloon town of Stavelot, a stay left at "the wooden bell": not being able to pay the bill of the hotel, Wilhelm and his half-brother Alberto Eugenio Giovanni must leave the city in secret and at dawn. The Walloon episode durably fecundates his imagination and his creation. Thus, from this time dates the memory of the festive dances of this country ("It is the skipjack jumping"), in Maria, that of the High Fens, as well as borrowing the Walloon dialect5. In 1900, he moved to Paris, center of arts and European literature at the time. Living in precarious situations, his mother asked him to make a living for a stenographic diploma and he became a bank employee like his half-brother Alberto Eugenio Giovanni. Engaged a month as negro lawyer Esnard to write the novel-soap opera What to do? in The Morning, Esnard refuses to pay him. To avenge himself, he seduces the young mistress of the lawyer6. In July 1901, he wrote his first article for Tabarin, satirical weekly edited by Ernest Gaillet, and in September 1901 his first poems in the magazine La Grande France under his name Wilhelm Kostrowiztky.

From May 1901 to 1902, he was tutor to Viscountess Ellinor Milhau, of German origin and widow of a French count. He falls in love with the English governess of his children, Annie Playden, who refuses his advances. It is then the "Rhenish" period of which his collections bear the trace (La Lorelei, Schinderhannes). Back in Paris in August 1902, he kept in touch with Annie and went to see her twice in London. But in 1905 she left for America. The poet celebrates the pain of discard in Annie, The Song of the Unloved, The Emigrant of Landor Road, Rhenish. 

Between 1902 and 1907, he worked for various organizations and published parallel tales and poems in magazines. At this time he took Apollinaire's pseudonym after the name of his maternal grandfather, Apollinaris, who recalls Apollo, the god of poetry. In 1907, he met the painter Marie Laurencin, with whom he had a chaotic and stormy relationship. At that time, he began to live with his pen. He befriends Pablo Picasso, Jean Metzinger, Paul Gordeaux, Andre Derain, Edmond-Marie Poullain, Maurice de Vlaminck and Douanier Rousseau, makes himself a poet and journaliist peaker and critic of art at L'Intransigeant.

In September 1911, accused of complicity in The Mona Lisa's flight because one of his acquaintances had stolen statuettes from the Louvre, he was imprisoned for a week in the prison of La Santé; This experience marks him as a Note 3. In 1913, he publishes Alcools, the sum of his poetic work since 18982. He tries to join the French army in August 1914, but the Revision Council adjourns his request because he did not not French nationality. His second application in December 1914 is accepted, which launches his naturalization procedure11. Shortly before committing himself, he falls in love with Louise de Coligny-Châtillon, met at the Villa Baratier, near Nice in September 1914 and nicknamed Lou. The countess is divorced and leads a very free life. Guillaume Apollinaire falls in love with her and woo her first in vain. Then when her request for a commitment was finally accepted and sent to Nimes, she finally accepted his advances and went to join him for a week, but she did not hide his attachment to a man she nicknamed Toutou. Quickly, Guillaume must go to the front.

A correspondence arises from their relationship; on the back of the letters that Apollinaire first sent out at the rate of one a day or every other day, then more and more distant, are poems that were later collected under the title of Shadow of My Love and Poems. at Lou12. His declaration of love, in a letter dated September 28, 1914, began in these terms: "Having told you this morning that I loved you, my neighbor last night, I now feel less embarrassed to write it to you . I had already felt it since that breakfast in old Nice where your big and beautiful doe eyes had troubled me so much that I had gone as early as possible to avoid the vertigo they gave me. "

There are a few controveries in regards to who Apollinaire's father was. It all starts when Melania (Apollinaire grandmother) and Nepoleon II became lovers. They had a son who was born in Italy at the age of 18 and found herself in the unexplained situation. She took care of the imperial child of imperial blood and was educated (from Kostrovicki money) in the Vatican. Later, Melania returned to Lithuania and lived in her father's estate where her and her grandson, the son of the son of a gnat in Italy, became Apollinaire. So Napoleon II would be the grandfather of Apollinaire. However, this version is not obviously confirmed, because so far it has been claimed that Apollinaire is another Kostrovickaite (from another family and belonging to another coat of arms) - Angelika

(Angelika),  a daughter of Michal Kostrowicki, born in Rome where his father is not exactly known. Furthermore,  another man named Francesco Flugi of Aspermont  was an Italian officer was also named as being the father of Apollinaire.  My hypothesis is that Francesco Flugi of Aspermont was the father to Alberto Eugenio Giovanni, Apollinaire half brother and Michal Kostrowicki is named by the coincidence of his last name.

Below we will describe an interesting story: the three famous properties of the French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821), his son Napoleon II ( full name Napoleon François Charles Joseph Bonaparte) (1811 Paris - Vienna, 1832), and the famous French poet Guyom Apolinero (in French- Guillaume Apollinaire) (1880-1918). The possible connections as well as the role here was Melanija Kostrovickaitė (Melanija Kostrowicka) who was the granddaughter of Barbara Sekliuckytė and the grandmother to Apollinaire.

The shoelaces have been associated with Kostrowitz, whose prominent representative was the famous French poet Apollinaris Kostrowicki. Barbora Sekliuckytė with her second husband Samuel Kostrovicki (1729 - 1780) had a son Onufrijų ( Onufr ) (1760 -?) and a grandson Samuel (1788-1859). Samuel Kostrovicki and his wife Ona Zaleskaya (Anna Zaleska) had a daughter named Melanija.

Melanija Kostrovickaitė was educated in the literature, history, languages, music and painting. She was taken to Vienna's estate, Schloss Schönbrunn where lived the second wife of Napoleon. Napoleon second wife was Marie Louise d'Autriche (1791 1847). This is where Melania met Napoleon and Marie Luis's son Napoleon II; the second emperor of France, who was nicknamed "Ereliukas". The Napoleonic marriage with the daughter of the Austrian Emperor Francis II was purely political which sought to converge with the Hapsburg dynasty and have a successor. Immediately after birth of his son, he received the title of Roman King. However, Napoleon in 1814 and 1815 having left his son the throne of the emperor in France, did not receive much approval. The state winners resisted them. Napoleon II ruled only 15 days from June 22, 1815 until July 7, 1815. The damsel grew up in the Grandfather's Palace in Vienna where he was given Reichstadt (Reichstadt Duke's title) up until 1830. Apollinaire did not know who his real father was. The hopes of Napoleon II were tied by Bonapartists but in 1830 was overthrown by King Charles X of France. Napoleon II was already too weak to take on the throne. He was sick and died early at age 21. His pompous mask is exhibited at the Vienna Schonbrunn Palace.

One day Melanija and Ereliukas got acquainted. Melanija had a nephew named Marcelijus (Marcin) Kostrovicki who's father was Lucian Melanija's brother. Lucian married Jozefa Sekliuckytę (Jozefa Sieklucka) who was given all his oil paintings, drawings, and watercolors with oil painted works with Reichstadt Duke's signature.

A few references to read:

https://gw.geneanet.org/arnac?lang=fr&n=apolinary+de+kostrowicki&oc...

https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=https://gw.gen...

https://www.myheritage.com/site-family-tree-211338941/moczarski-vel...

   '''Czesław Malewski. Rody i herby szlacheckie na Litwie (XV).

Another family has tried to claim him. There is no evidence to prove the fact.

https://www.geni.com/family-tree/index/6000000011139055187