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PoNIATOwsKI (1757—1833), son of Casimir, joined the See also:emperor at See also:Lutzen. In the See also:campaign of 1813 he shared in the aggrandisement of the See also:family during the reign of guarded the passes of the Bohemian mountains and defended Stanislaus II., becoming See also:grand treasurer of Lithuania, starost the See also:left See also:bank of the See also:Elbe. As a See also:reward for his brilliant services of See also:Podolia and See also:lieutenant-See also:general of the royal See also:army. In 1793 at the three days' See also:battle of See also:Leipzig he was made a See also:marshal of he settled in See also:Vienna, and subsequently in See also:Rome, where he made See also:France and entrusted with the See also:honourable but dangerous See also:duty a magnificent collection of See also:antique gems in his See also:house on the of covering the See also:retreat of the army. Poniatowski heroically Via See also:Flaminia. This collection was sold at See also:Christie's in See also:London defended Leipzig, losing See also:half his See also:corps in the See also:attempt, finally in May 1839. He died in See also:Florence on the 13th of See also:February falling back slowly upon the See also:bridge over the See also:Elster which the 1833, and with him the See also:Polish and See also:Austrian honours became See also:French in the general confusion blew up before he reached it. See also:extinct. Contesting every step with the overwhelming forces of the His natural, but recognized, son, See also:JOSEPH See also:MICHAEL See also:XAVIER pursuers, he refused to surrender, and covered with wounds See also:FRANCIS See also:JOHN PONIATOWSKI (1816-1873), was See also:born at Rome plunged into the See also:river, where he flied fighting to the last. His and in 1847 was naturalized as a Tuscan subject. He received See also:relics were conveyed to See also:Poland and buried in See also:Cracow See also:Cathedral, the See also:title of See also:prince in See also:Tuscany (1847) and in See also:Austria (1850). where he lies by the See also:side of Tadeusz See also:Kosciuszko and See also:Jan Sobieski. He had studied See also:music under Ceccherini at Florence, and wrote Poniatowski's See also:Mes souvenirs sur la campagne de 1992 (See also:Lemberg, numerous operas, in the first of which, Giovanni di See also:Procida, 1863) is a valuable See also:historical document, he sang the title role himself at See also:Lucca in 1838. He represented See Stanislaw Kostka Boguslawski, See also:Life of Prince Joseph Poniathe See also:court of Tuscany in See also:Paris from 1848, and he was made a towski (Pol.; See also:Warsaw, 1831) ; Franciszek Paszkowski, Prince Joseph senator by See also:Napoleon III., whom he followed to See also:England in Poniatowski (Pol.; Cracow, 1898) ; See also:Correspondence of Poniatowski r8 His last See also:opera, Gelmina, was produced at Covent See also:Garden (ed.

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Posen, 1843); Bronislaw Dembinski, Stanislaus 71. See also:Pro See also:Augustus and Prince Joseph Poniatowski in the See also:light of their Corre- in 1872. He died on the 3rd of See also:July 1873, and was buried at spondence (Fr.; Lemberg, 1904); Szymon Askenazy, Prince See also:Chislehurst. His son, Prince Stanislaus Augustus, married and Joseph Poniatowski (Pol.; Warsaw, 1905). (R. N. B.) settled in Paris. He was See also:equerry to Napoleon III., and died PONS, See also:JEAN See also:LOUIS (1761-1831), French astronomer, was in See also:January 1908. born at Peyres (Hautes Alpes) on the 24th of See also:December 1761.

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