Thursday Dinners

Neoclassical Palace on the Isle at the Royal Baths Park where the dinners were held in summer
The Warsaw Royal Castle chamber where dignitaries would dine with the King

Thursday Dinners (Polish: obiady czwartkowe, less commonly translated as Thursday Lunches) were gatherings of artists, intellectuals, architects, politicians and statesmen held by the last King of Poland, Stanislaus II Augustus during the Enlightenment period in Poland.[1]

  1. ^ Konczacki, Janina M. (1986-04-01). "Stanislaw August Poniatowski's "Thursday Dinners" and Cultural Change in Late Eighteenth Century Poland". Canadian Journal of History. 21 (1): 25–36. doi:10.3138/cjh.21.1.25. ISSN 0008-4107.