Editing Stanisław Leszczyński (section)

==Duke of Lorraine and of Bar==
On 26 January 1736, Stanisław again abdicated the throne but received in compensation the duchies of [[Duchy of Lorraine|Lorraine]] and of [[Duchy of Bar|Bar]], which was to revert to France on his death. In 1738, he sold his estates of [[Rydzyna]] and [[Leszno]] to Count (later Prince) [[Alexander Joseph Sułkowski]]. He settled at [[Lunéville]] where he held court at the [[Château de Lunéville]], which became a centre of the arts and culture, drawing a number of personalities of the enlightenment including Madame [[Émilie du Châtelet]]. In Nancy in 1750 he founded both the [[Académie de Stanislas]] and [[Bibliothèque municipale de Nancy]], and devoted himself for the rest of his life to science and philanthropy, engaging most notably in controversy with [[Jean-Jacques Rousseau|Rousseau]].<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://www.academia.edu/23935174|title=The Polish Question as a Political Issue within Philosophical Dispute: Leszczyński versus Rousseau|first=Jan|last=Květina |journal=Oriens Aliter. Journal for Culture and History of the Central and Eastern Europe|date=January 2014|access-date=April 11, 2019|via=www.academia.edu}}</ref> He also published ''[[Głos wolny wolność ubezpieczający]]'', one of the most important political treatises of the Polish Enlightenment. 

His court painter was [[André Joly]].<ref>{{cite book | url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bd6t5397359r/f746.item | title=Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs de tous les temps et de tous les pays. Tome 2 / Par un groupe d'écrivains spécialistes français et étrangers ; sous la direction de e. Bénézit. }}</ref>