Decydująca noc z 26 na 27 czerwca 1697 roku, czyli co przesądziło o wyborze Augusta II na tron polski
The Decisive Night of 26/27 June 1697, or What Determined the Election of August II to the Polish Throne

Summary/Abstract: The text continues the reflec- tions (“In the Realm of Myth, or What Did Not Determine the 1697 Election of Augus- tus II to the Polish Throne” [KH 129, 2022, 4, pp. 797–821]). Its purpose is to establish what really decided in the last days of the 1697 Election Sejm that, in a split elec- tion, the Polish nobility chose, alongside French Prince François Louis de Conti, the least expected candidate — a convert from Lutheranism, the Saxon Elector Friedrich August I Wettin (August II). The author reconstructs the last days of the Sejm, con- fronting diplomatic and diary relations with the records of the Sejm proceedings.

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