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	The Courtly Lives of Polish Kings, Nobles, Saints, ... - Stanislaw August Poniatowski
		Stanislas August Poniatowski (1732-1798) was the son of Stanislas Poniatowski (1676-1762), a Lithuanian Stolnik, and (2)Princess Constance Czartoryska.
		Casimir Marie Poniatowski inherited the Polish Ustrzycka bl.
		The Poniatowski was a patriotic man of the Polish state and served as Supreme Chief of the arms of the Duchy of Varsovie and marshal of France.
	www.angelfire.com /mi4/polcrt/Poniatowski.html (1038 words)

	Poniatowski - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Poniatowski (plural: Poniatowski) is the surname of a Polish szlachta (nobility) family.
		Poniatowa was the residence of several branches of the Poniatowski family: Tłuk, Jarasz and Ciołek.
		On the free election on September 7, 1764, at Wola Stanislaw Poniatowski was elected as King of Poland.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Poniatowski (230 words)

	Poniatowski
		Prince Jozef Antoni Poniatowski, the nephew of the last king of Poland Stanislaw August Poniatowski, was born and raised in Vienna.
		Poniatowski volunteered as an ordinary soldier (reported for duty at Kosciuszko's camp near Jedrzejow on May 27) and did not want to lead the Insurrection in Lithuania, which was what Kosciuszko proposed (he recommended his friend Wielhorski for that job; Wielhorski replaced the demoted radical Jakub Jasinski, but his tenure in Lithuania was not successful).
		Poniatowski counterattacked, leading into the action each of his battalions in turn (Tsar Alexander watched this from one of the nearby hills), but with the rest of the French army was compelled to withdraw toward the city.
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	AllEmpires - The Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth (Full) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		August II August II The Polish Commonwealth entered the critical stage and the decline was on the way.
		Stanislaw Leszczynski was given the Duchy of Lorraine as a consolation, and Augustus III ascended the Polish throne.
		August III, Poland's new monarch, was obese, indolent, virtually incapable of thought and drunkard as his father was.
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	Czartoryski
		August (1697-1782), Mikhal's younger brother, was the financial genius of the "Familia".
		Konstancja meanwhile married the brilliant general Stanislaw Poniatowski, and Teodor went into the church, in 1720 becoming bishop of Poznan.
		In the end it was Poniatowski, who had strong backing from Russia and was at one time the official lover of the future Empress Catherine the Great, who was crowned King Stanislaw II Augustus of Poland in 1764.
	www.czartoryski.org /familyhistory.htm (335 words)

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		The long reign of King August II was tantamount to the total political and moral disintegration of the state.
		The exiled Stanislaw Leszczynski was recalled from France and hastily re-elected by the General Convention to the position of King of Poland.
		Poniatowski was even nominated to the position of general in the Swedish army and was on many occasions entrusted with responsibilities of major importance.
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	Encyclopedia: Stanislaw August Poniatowski (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Stanislaus Augustus (born Stanisław Antoni Poniatowski; January 17, 1732, Wołczyn, Poland - February 12, 1798, St. Petersburg, Russia) was the last king of independent Poland (1764-1795).
		"Portrait of King Stanisław August Poniatowski with Hourglass" and crown, oil on canvas by Marcello Bacciarelli, 1793, National Museum, Warsaw.
		Poniatowski's diaries and letters, held for many years in the Russian ministry of foreign affairs, appeared in the January 1908 Vestnik Evropy [News of Europe].
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Stanislaw-August-Poniatowski (961 words)

	The School of History, Queen's University Belfast (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		‘Stanislaw August Poniatowski jako latitudynarysta religijny’ [Stanislaw August Poniatowski as a religious latitudinarian], Wiek Oswiecenia [The Age of Enlightenment], XIV (1998).
		‘Stanislaw August Poniatowski - patriota oswiecony i kosmopolityczny’ [Stanislaw August Poniatowski - an enlightened and cosmopolitan patriot], Wiek Oswiecenia, XV(1999).
		Stanislaw August Poniatowski, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and politesse in England’, SVEC [Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century’], 2003:07.
	www.qub.ac.uk /ss/esh/rbutterwick.htm (604 words)

	PRINT MANAGER (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Stanislaw was having his affair with the Russian monarch – at a time when Russia’s influence over Polish affairs was becoming more and more oppressive.
		Stanislaw would boast of one of his famous initiatives – like setting up the first Ministry of Education anywhere in Europe - while Charles would tell him about the often-reported ‘mystical experience’ he had in the 1980’s when he was floating in a boat down the Amazon.
		Stanislaw was not as weak as she thought, however, and did his best to fend off the three great Imperial powers of Austria, Prussia and Catherine’s Russia, which all had plans of doing away with Poland forever.
	www.radio.com.pl /print/defaultutf.asp?schema=17&iID=19538 (874 words)

	Poland - The Three Partitions, 1764-95
		Confounding expectations that he would be an obedient servant of his mistress, Stanislaw August encouraged the modernization of his realm's ramshackle political system and achieved a temporary moratorium on use of the individual veto in the Sejm (1764-66).
		King Stanislaw August supported the progressive elements in the government and promoted the ideas of foreign political figures such as Edmund Burke and George Washington.
		Stanislaw August's process of renovation reached its climax on May 3, 1791, when, after three years of intense debate, the "Four Years' Sejm" produced Europe's first written constitution.
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	Digitalisation of old Immersive photography
		It was once the venue for the coronation of Polish kings Wladyslaw IV, Stanislaw Leszczynski and Stanislaw August Poniatowski, as well as the adoption of the May 3rd Constitution.
		In the cathedral's vaults lie many famous Poles, and the presbytery is the oldest surviving example of Gothic architecture in Warsaw.
		The Royal Castle was reconstructed to its early-Baroque appearance of the late 16th century.
	www.eurofresh.se /warsaw/index-wh30.htm (374 words)

	May 3rd Doc
		At the end of the session at the Castle, King Stanislaw August goes to the Cathedral of St. John, as he is being kissed on the hands by his devoted royal subjects, to repeat the Oath of the Constitution in front of the Altar, in the face of God.
		Stanislaw Kostka Potocki, brother of Ignacy, statesman, famed orator, member of the Permanent Council of the Diet.
		The last king of Poland, Stanislaw August Poniatowski, patron of arts and science who, although lacking qualities of bold leadership, was one of the most enlightened monarchs in the annals of Europe.
	www.polishamericancenter.org /May3rdDoc.htm (820 words)

	Franciszka Krasinska
		She was born sometime between 1972-44 as the second daughter of Stanislaw Krasinski, the dziedzic [land owner] of Maleszowo and Wegrow, he also was the starosta [elder] of Nowomiejsk.
		The king also said that she supported his dethronement -- an unfair accusation because Franciszka condemned the "act of interregnum" as she did the manifesto issued against the Czartoryski family, and was for restoring good relations with the king.
		In February 1772 believing in the power of diplomacy and deluding herself with the candidacy of Fryderyk of Hesse [for the Polish throne] she moved to Koszecin only to see the tragic end of the confederation and the destruction of all her plans.
	www.poles.org /Krasinska.html (1536 words)

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		Stanislaw August Poniatowski, the Polish king, had as his adherents the powerful patriotic party with Ignacy and Stanislaw Potocki, Adam Kazimierz Czartoryski, Stanislaw Malachowski, the Italian Scipione Piattoli, and Hugo Kollataj, who was the ideological leader of that group.
		Burghers in the royal towns (those owned by the magnates were not covered by the Act) were assured personal inviolability, the right of purchasing estates, access to many offices and ranks in the army, and participation in the Seym (with the decisive vote in matters concerned with towns and trade).
		Stanislaw August was to be succeeded by the Saxon dynasty.
	www.thenagain.info /WebChron/EastEurope/4yseym.CP.html (412 words)

	Military Figure-Ks. J. Poniato, Handcrafted Figurines at Poland by Mail
		Stanislaw August became his guardian, and throughout their common life span these two great members of the Poniatowski family enjoyed a close, father-son like relationship.
		In 1787 with Stanislaw August and historian Adam Naruszewicz participated in a trip to Kiev, to meet Catherine the Great.
		Prince Karl Philipp Schwarzenberg was also Poniatowski's friend and colleague at thattime (at Sabatch Poniatowski saved his life); due to the changing fortunes and allegiances, in the future they will meet many times as allies or as foes, and at the end Schwarzenberg will come back to deliver the crushing blow at Leipzig.
	www.polandbymail.com /get_item_mp5029_military-figure-ks-j-poniato.htm (726 words)

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		During the reign of August III, the Royal Castle was rebuilt in the Franco-Saxon style and more then 50 palace-and-garden residences were built in various parts of Warsaw.
		When Stanislaw August Poniatowski was elected a king in 1763, Warsaw was a modern capital that was a center of political economic and artistic life.
		The result of the more then three decade long reign of Stanislaw August was the "Government Laws" adopted by the parliament on May 3rd, 1791.
	atdpweb.soe.berkeley.edu /2035/mjezierski/right.htm (466 words)

	Stanislaw II August Poniatowski -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Stanislaw II, detail of a painting by M. Bacciarelli, 1783; in the Museum in Torun, …
		He was born the sixth child of Stanislaw Poniatowski, a Polish noble, and his wife, Princess Konstancja Czartoryska.
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	Naruszewicz Adam Stanislaw: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		StanisLaw August Poniatowski...na-toy-skee Adam Kazimierz; Czartoryski...continues to think that Stanislaw August would have...unfit to be king.
		Stanislaw is honored with two lives composed...to call the Krakow bishop, Stanislaw, who was killed by King Boleslaw...
		...included at times the leading reformer Stanislaw Staszic, while the anti-monarchist...protagonists were, however, clearly Adam Naruszewicz, a man with enlightened, cosmopolitan...under the leadership of Prince Adam Jerzy Czartoryski.
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	Stanislaw II August Poniatowski -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust!
		Seeing the young Poniatowski as a convenient pawn, she used Russian troops and Russian influence to ensure his election as Stanislaw II on Sept. 7, 1764.
		Stanislaw was then forced to participate in the Russian-controlled Sejm at Grodno in 1793, which agreed to the second partitioning of Poland, this time between Russia and Prussia.
		After the Russians had crushed the uprising, Stanislaw abdicated on Nov. 25, 1795, as Poland was being partitioned again by Russia, Prussia, and Austria, the three countries this time annexing its entire territory.
	www.britannica.com /ebc/article-9069415 (1069 words)

	Lazienki Park in Warsaw, Poland - photography
		A former summer residence of King Stanislaw August Poniatowski, Lazienki is a park-and-palace complex, one of the most beautiful in Poland.
		One a hunting ground attached to the Ujazdow Castle, the are was acquired by the king in 1776 and within a short time transformed into a splendid park complete with a palace, an amphiteatre and a number of buidings scattered around.
		Despite various ups and downs the complex has retained it original shape and architecture and is a perfect place for a walk.
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		Under the last king, Stanislaw August Poniatowski (1764-96), the situation improved dramatically: printing, the book trade and the circulation of foreign works within Poland increased considerably during his reign; the massive growth in secular presses and publishing houses made the implementation of ecclesiastical censorship increasingly difficult.
		Poniatowski's reform-minded regime largely restored the responsibility for censorship to municipal authorities alone.
		It was only performed for the first time in a considerably altered version ten years later in Cracow, due to the Stary director Stanislaw Kozmian's personal intervention with the Viceroy's office, but at the cost of the complete removal of the derogatory term "Moskal" (Muscovite).
	www2.arts.gla.ac.uk /Slavonic/staff/Polcen19c.html (3038 words)

	OUP: Poland's Last King and English Culture: Butterwick
		The attempt by Stanislaw August Poniatowski (1764-95) 'to create anew the Polish world' was one of the most audacious enterprises of reform undertaken by any enlightened monarch in the eighteenth century.
		Stanislaw August died in exile, cursed by most of his compatriots to this day.
		He shows how Stanislaw's radical plans for reform of Poland's constitution and culture were profoundly influenced by his love of England, and examines the successes and limitations of the Polish Enlightenment.
	www.oup.co.uk /isbn/0-19-820701-8 (355 words)

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		PONIATOWSKI Stanislaw August (1732 - 1798), king of Poland (1764 - 1795), founder of a Knight School, patron of arts and literature, supported establishing of manufactures, co-creator of the Third of May Constitution (1971), the first modern constitution in Europe and the second one in the world (after the American Constitution 1788).
		Arrested by the Germans (1917); after his release a year later, he arrived in Warsaw where the Regency Council entrusted him with the command of the armed forces, and the parliament appointed him Head of State (20 February 1919).
		During war with the Soviet Union, Pilsudski repulsed the Soviet attack against Warsaw (August 1920, the so-called miracle on the Vistula).
	www.poland-canada.org /content/weh-info/publications/econguide/chapter_1/1.2.htm (1102 words)

	The Art Of Ancient Poland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Enlightenment of the second half of the 18th century and the patronage of king Stanislaw August Poniatowski in particular, combined to lay the foundations of native artistic achievements of a truly high European standard.
		The calling of Polish national art which drew on our traditions, beliefs, tales and legends, was fulfilled at the turn of the century by Jacek Malczewski and Stanislaw Wyspianski.
		Art fulfilled its mission as "a reflection of the universal rallies of the soul, and as a civilising element of the society it emerged from" (Stanislaw Witkiewicz).
	www.polishconsulatela.com /English/Virtual_Tour/art_of_poland.htm (607 words)

	Polish culture: Xawery Dunikowski Museum of Sculpture
		The Museum is housed in the classicist Krolikarnia palace, which was modelled on Palladio's Renaissance villa, "Villa Rotonda", and was built in 1782-1786 by Domenico Merlini for Karol Alexander Thomatis de Valery, the Chamberlain of King Stanislaw August Poniatowski.
		The name "Krolikarnia" ("the rabbit warren") reflects the fact that rabbits used to be bred here during the reigns of the Saxon kings.
		His style was close to that of the Mloda Polska (The Young Poland) movement, and had some affinity with August Rodin's art, especially in such works as Maternity and his Pregnant Woman series, intentionally synthetic and compact in form.
	www.culture.pl /en/culture/artykuly/in_mu_dunikowskiego (271 words)

	Alibris: August
		France's defeat in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71 was the beginning of decades of crisis for the French Army and the French nation.
		Twelve days in August change a sixteen-year-old soccer player's perceptions of himself, his family, girls, and gays.
		By correlating extensive economic and institutional data from New York State for the period from 1841 to 1967, Harvey Brenner concludes that instabilities in the national economy are the single most important source of fluctuations in mental-hospital admissions or admission rates.
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	WARSAW HISTORY \| Warsaw Accommodation, Apartment in Warsaw Poland, hotels in Warsaw (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		It was during this period that many of the city’s palaces, churches and monasteries were erected and the cultural life flourished, especially during the reign of the last Polish king, Stanislaw August Poniatowski.
		Virtually everyone was in constant danger of being arrested in a round-up and sent to either a work or concentration camp.
		From the beginning, the fighters of the Home Army (Armia Krajowa) were doomed, because of lack of help from the outside.
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