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In 1807, Napoleon appointed Frederick Augustus I, King of Saxony, as Grand Duke of Warsaw. Why a German and not a Polish noble given the support Polish émigrés had provided Napoleon? How did the Poles feel about this?

by /u/EnclavedMicrostate in /r/AskHistorians

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