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When business stagnated he was forced to teach in the
family of the Leszynskis; Mary of that name, one of his pupils,
being beloved by Napoleon I. became the mother of Count Walewski,
a minister of the second French empire. Drifting to Zelazowa-
Wola, Nicholas Chopin lived in the house of the Countess Skarbek,
acting as tutor to her son, Frederic. There he made the
acquaintance of Justina Krzyzanowska, born of "poor but noble
parents." He married her in 1806 and she bore him four children:
three girls, and the boy Frederic Francois.
With a refined, scholarly French father, Polish in political
sentiments, and an admirable Polish mother, patriotic to the
extreme, Frederic grew to be an intelligent, vivacious, home-
loving lad. Never a hearty boy but never very delicate, he seemed
to escape most of the disagreeable ills of childhood. The
moonstruck, pale, sentimental calf of many biographers, he never
was. Strong evidence exists that he was merry, pleasure-loving
and fond of practical jokes. While his father was never rich, the
family after the removal to Warsaw lived at ease.


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