Het galant Saxen; Behelzende de Vorstelyke Minnaryen van Fredrik Augustus, Koning van Polen, en Keurvorst van Saxen - Pöllnitz, Karl Ludwig von 1692-1775 1692-1775 (Dordrecht Hoogstraten, van, 1757)
The dutch version is not based on the original, published in french as 'La Saxe galante (Amsterdam, 1734), but on the German translation ''Das galante Sachsen - Aus dem Frannzösischen übersetzt von einem Deutschen. Nebst eines Vorrede und Zueignungs-Schrifft an die Galante Gelehrte Welt'', Amsterdam 1735 (see 10E15)
Pöllnitz was a Prussian adventurer, writer and above all - from 1740 almost exclusively - courtier to Frederick II of Prussia.
Life at the court of Augustus II, most commonly known as Augustus the Strong, who was Elector of Saxony from 1694 as well as King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania in the years 1697–1706 and from 1709 until his death in 1733.
La Saxe galante
Ex libris Biblioteca di Casate Vecchio (plate)
Doormengt met Poolsche en Saxische Staatkundige stukken. Uit het hoogduitsch vertaalt.
Keywords: 18th Century (1701-1800); History; Court; Saxony (Germany)