Augustus III of Poland
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Augustus III of Poland was King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1733 until 1763, as well as Elector of Saxony in the Holy Roman Empire where he was known as Frederick Augustus II.
Portrait by Louis de Silvestre
Reception of Augustus at Versailles by Louis XIV, 1714
Augustus, aged 19 years in 1715 by Nicolas de Largillière
Prince Frederick Augustus, by Louis de Silvestre, 1727
Stanisław Leszczyński
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Stanisław I Leszczyński, also Anglicised and Latinised as Stanislaus, was twice King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, and at various times Prince of Deux-Ponts, Duke of Bar and Duke of Lorraine.
Augustus III of Poland
…claim to the region of Courland. He was elected king of Poland by a small minority on 5 October 1733 and subsequently banished the former Polish king Stanisław I. He was crowned in Kraków on 17 January 1734. Augustus was supportive of Austria against Prussia in the War of Austrian Succession and again in the…
Portrait by Jean Girardet
Festival at the Rocher grotto of the Château de Lunéville in 1742, painting by Laurent Charpentier
Painting of the Place Royale in Nancy c. 1760 which was constructed during his rule, later renamed Place Stanislas in his honour
Antoine-Martin Chaumont de La Galaizière created Chancellor of Lorraine and Barrois by Stanislas I (painting by François-André Vincent, 1788