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  • His oldest nephew, Prince Joseph Poniatowski, is well known through his military talents and the great bravery which have earned for him the name of the "Polish Bayard."

    Memoirs of Madame Vigée Lebrun 1903

  • Some of these, as in the case of Stanislaw Poniatowski, were made rulers of the areas that Catherine took over.

    Five People Born on April 21 | myFiveBest 2010

  • In 1793, Voltaire supported Catherine's land-grab in Poland and her betrayal of her francophone ex-lover, Stanislaw Poniatowski Poland's last king, on the grounds that "Reason" was entitled to trump Catholicism.

    Why They All Came to Versailles Frederic Raphael 2011

  • "Count Poniatowski and the Beautiful Chicken" simply moves the heart, especially the way the story transitions from a science fiction piece into one of sentimentality.

    REVIEW: Interfictions 2: An Anthology of Interstitial Writing edited by Delia Sherman and Christopher Barzak 2009

  • In a technique similar to that used by another fine Mexican writer, Elena Poniatowski, Butterfield's fictional journalist, George Redfield, tells us that

    The Line/La Línea 2008

  • In a technique similar to that used by another fine Mexican writer, Elena Poniatowski, Butterfield's fictional journalist, George Redfield, tells us that

    The Line/La Línea 2008

  • In a technique similar to that used by another fine Mexican writer, Elena Poniatowski, Butterfield's fictional journalist, George Redfield, tells us that

    The Line/La Línea 2008

  • Kramer drove the lorry across the Poniatowski bridge to Praga.

    Archive 2009-04-01 Johnny Pez 2009

  • Kramer drove the lorry across the Poniatowski bridge to Praga.

    DBTL 21: A Post About Nothing Johnny Pez 2009

  • She saw an engraving of Poles rushing with Poniatowski into the Elster, — for all France persists in thinking that the Elster, where it is impossible to get drowned, is an impetuous flood, in which Poniatowski and his followers were engulfed.

    The Imaginary Mistress 2007

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