Guy Jean Raoul Eugè de Savoy-Carignan
Both Kraszewski novels on the Skomlin list are his translations, made at the turn of the twentieth century, when almost no Polish fiction was reaching English readers at all.
Guy Jean Raoul Eugene Charles Emmanuel de Savoie-Carignan, Count de Soissons (born 1860), was a translator and writer who put a number of Polish works into English, usually credited as Count S. C. de Soissons. He translated Jozef Ignacy Kraszewski's The Countess Cosel, published by Downey and Co. in London in 1901, and Count Bruhl, both from Kraszewski's Saxon novels about the court of Augustus the Strong, and supplied an introduction to the first of them calling Kraszewski a reformer of Polish literature. He also translated Eliza Orzeszkowa's An Obscure Apostle (1899) and Henryk Sienkiewicz's So Runs the World, and wrote Boston Artists (1894), A Parisian in America and Six Great Princesses (1913).
Titles at Skomlin
Born Anna Constantia von Brockdorff this German noblewoman rose from lady-in-waiting to mistress of the King of Poland. Her fate was to be 49 years a prisoner never giving the King the one thing he desperately wanted. In doing so she chose death in prison over freedom.
Count Henryk Brühl was a statesman at the court of Poland and Saxony. With skill and ruthless cunning he dispatched his rivals and gain control of the King and Poland. His ambition and greed exceeded his political ability and left the country bankrupt and utterly unprepared to resist the attacks of the Prussian king.