| Summary: | The history of Hungarian-Polish relations in the period of the Enlightenment includes a particularly intense chapter during the emigration of Polish and Hungarian nobles to France. From the late seventeenth century, part of the elites of these two countries was supported by French diplomacy against the Habsburg monarchy and Russia. Hungarian and Polish communities appeared in France in the eighteenth century. The emigration of Prince Francis II Rákóczi and King Stanisław I boosted these settlements in France. This study examines the solidarity networks between Polish and Hungarian nobles at the court of France who benefited from the support of the Leszczyński family and secret structures such as the Secret du Roi (King’s Secret). The friendship between King Stanisław and Count Ladislas Berchény, head of Hungarian immigration to France, symbolizes this cooperation that worked well until and even after their death.
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