Michał Fryderyk, Prince Czartoryski

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...