Author
Stanisław Leszczyński 1677-1766

From 1697 the Cup-bearer of the Crown; from 1699 the voivode of Poznań, elected – with Swedish support – the King of Poland in the first phase of the Great Northern War which began in 1700. He contributed to the conclusion of the Polish-Swedish treaty of friendship which made Poland dependent on Sweden. Following the defeat of the Swedish King Charles XII in the battle of Poltava (1709), Leszczyński was forced to emigrate. After the death of Augustus II the Strong (1733), Stanislaus I, supported by his son-in-law the King of France Louis XV, was again elected to the Polish throne. In the wake of the War of the Polish Succession (1733-35) he abdicated under the pressure of Moscow, receiving for life the Duchy of Lorraine in France. He is commonly believed to have been the author of the work written probably about the year 1733 and entitled Głos wolny wolność ubezpieczający, which included a critique of the ‘liberum veto’ and the demand for the strengthening of executive power, reform of the army, and extending the protection of the State to peasants who enjoyed personal freedom.

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