Rare 1734 King Stanislaw Poland Royal Polish Manuscript Document Letter Book PL

Description: LOT-O29. For your consideration is an exceedingly rare and historically important handwritten manuscript document regarding Polish King Stanisaw Leszczyski, dated 1734. The document is a bound booklet consisting on 21 handwritten pages. Royal manuscript letter is written in French or Latin. Watermarked in multiple locations. Manuscript document written on period laid paper. Guaranteed original and authentic. Document measures approximately 6.5" x 8.25" folded. Stanisaw I Leszczyski (Polish pronunciation: [Lithuanian: Stanislovas Leinskis; French: Stanislas Leszczynski; 20 October 1677 23 February 1766), also Anglicized and Latinized as Stanislaus I, was King of Poland, Grand Duke of Lithuania, Duke of Lorraine and a count of the Holy Roman Empire. Stanisaw was born into a powerful magnate family of Greater Poland, and he had the opportunity to travel to western Europe in his youth. In 1702 King Charles XII of Sweden marched into the country as part of a continuing series of conflicts between the powers of northern Europe. Charles forced the Polish nobility to depose Polands king, Augustus II the Strong, and then placed Stanisaw on the throne (1704). The early 18th century was a period of great problems and turmoil for Poland. In 1709 Charles was defeated by the Russians at the Battle of Poltava and fled to exile in the Ottoman Empire, leaving Stanisaw without any real and stable support. Augustus II regained the Polish throne, and Stanisaw left the country to settle in the French province of Alsace. In 1725 Stanisaws daughter Marie Leszczyska married Louis XV of France. When Augustus died in 1733, Stanisaw sought to regain the Polish throne with the help of French support for his candidacy. After travelling to Warsaw in disguise, he was elected king of Poland by an overwhelming majority of the Diet. However, before his coronation, Russia and Habsburg Monarchy, fearing Stanisaw would unite Poland in the Swedish-French alliance, invaded the country to annul his election. Stanisaw was once more deposed, and, under Russian pressure, a small minority in the Diet elected the Saxon elector Frederick Augustus II to the Polish throne as Augustus III. Stanisaw retreated to the city of Danzig (Gdask) to wait for French assistance, which did not come. Fleeing before the city fell to its Russian besiegers, he then journeyed to Knigsberg in Prussia, where he directed guerrilla warfare against the new king and his Russian supporters. The Peace of Vienna in 1738 recognized Augustus III as king of Poland but allowed Stanisaw to keep his royal titles while granting him the provinces of Lorraine and Bar for life. In Lorraine, Stanisaw proved to be a good administrator and promoted economic development. His court at Lunville became famous as a cultural center, and he founded an academy of science at Nancy and a military college. In 1749 he published a book entitled Free Voice to Make Freedom Safe, an outline of his proposed changes in the Polish constitution. Editions of his letters to his daughter Marie, to the kings of Prussia, and to Jacques Hulin, his minister at Versailles, have been published. In Nancy, Place Stanislas (Stanisaw Square) was named in his honor.

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