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Michał Fryderyk, Prince Czartoryski
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Michał Fryderyk, Prince Czartoryski

Polish prince
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Born:
April 26, 1696
Died:
August 13, 1775, Warsaw, Poland (aged 79)
House / Dynasty:
Czartoryski family
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Michał Fryderyk, Prince Czartoryski (born April 26, 1696—died August 13, 1775, Warsaw, Poland) was a Polish statesman who made his family party of Czartoryskis, the so-called Familia, the leading party in Poland. Educated at Paris, Florence, and Rome, Czartoryski attached himself to the Saxon court and obtained the vice chancellorship of Lithuania. He was one of the nobles who, on the illness of King Augustus II of Poland in 1727, signed the secret guarantee of the Polish succession to that king’s son; but he supported Stanisław Leszczyński when the latter was placed upon the throne by the influence of France ...(100 of 272 words)

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