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Grégoire Orlyk
Grégoire Orlyk, also Hryhor Orlyk (, November 5, 1702, Baturyn – November 14, 1759, Minden), was a French military commander, special envoy and member of Louis XV's secret intelligence service. Grégoire Orlyk was born in Ukraine, the son of Ukrainian hetman in exile Pylyp Orlyk and Hanna Hertsyk, received good education in Sweden, served in Poland and Saxony, participated in secret efforts of France to restore on the Polish throne Stanisław Leszczyński. He later commanded the king's regiment of "
biography of Grégoire Orlyk was by the historian Elie Borschak, who published "Hryhor Orlyk, France's Cossack General" in 1956. This biography contained many interesting and new discoveries about Orlyk. However, this book made the erroneous claim that the Orly commune near Paris was named after Grégoire Orlyk, who had his estate in the area. This is false as the name was in use in Roman times.
In 2006 voluminous records of Orlyk's clandestine correspondence with Louis XV within the "Secret du Roi" were discovered in