Princess de Talmont and the Voltaire Connection.
Princess de Talmont (née Maria Anna Ludwika Jabłonowska) arrived in France from her native Poland in the early decades of the eighteenth century. Her family ties to the Versailles and Lunéville courts (as first cousin of the exiled Polish monarch, Stanisław Leszczyński) brought her widespread notori...
| Publicado en: | Polish Review Vol. 70; no. 4; pp. 5 - 27 |
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University of Illinois Press
2025
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