Michel Poniatowski
| Michel Poniatowski | |
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| Spouse(s) | Gilberte de Chavagnac |
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| Noble family | Poniatowski |
| Father | Prince Charles-Casimir Poniatowski |
| Mother | Countess Anne de Caraman-Chimay |
| Born |
16 May 1922 Paris, France |
| Died | 16 January 2002 (aged 79) Opio, France |
Michel Poniatowski (16 May 1922 in Paris, France – 16 January 2002 in Opio, France) was a French politician, member of the senior branch of Poland's princely Poniatowski family. He was a founder of the Independent Republicans and a part of the administration for President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing. Poniatowski served as Minister of Health from 1973 to 1974 and Minister of the Interior in the d'Estaing government from 1974 to 1977. He was a founder and honorary president of the Union for French Democracy (Union pour la Démocratie Française, UDF).
Poniatowski was a great-great-great-grandson of Prince Kazimierz Poniatowski, older brother of Stanisław August Poniatowski, who reigned as king of Poland from 1764 to 1795. Kasimierz had a son, Stanisław Poniatowski 1754–1833, whose son, Giuseppe Luci (1816–1873), by his mistress Cassandra Luci, was recognized and ennobled in the Austrian Empire on 19 November 1850 as Joseph Michel, Prince Poniatowski, a name and title recognised by Napoleon III when Poniatowski was naturalised in France and became a senator there, both in 1854. Two years later in Paris, Joseph's son, Prince Stanislas Poniatowski (1835–1908), married Louise Le Hon, generally reputed to be the daughter of Countess Le Hon (née Fanny Mosselman) by Charles, Duke de Morny, the illegitimate son of Charles Joseph, comte de Flahaut by Hortense de Beauharnais, sometime Queen consort of Holland as well as the adopted and step-daughter of Napoleon I; thus Louise Le Hon (as a granddaughter of Napoleon III's uterine half-brother) was a niece of the Emperor of France at the time of her marriage to Poniatowski, who was appointed the emperor's aide-de-camp. Their son, André Poniatowski (1864-1954) wed flour mill heiress Elizabeth Sperry in 1894. The son of that union, Prince Casimir Poniatowski (1897-1980), became the father of Michel by his 1920 marriage to Countess Anne de Caraman-Chimay (1901-1977), member of a Belgian princely family.
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