Editing Ignacy Potocki (section)

===Final years===
Following the victory of the [[Targowica Confederation]] and the [[Wiktionary:abrogation|abrogation]] of the [[May 3rd Constitution]], Potocki emigrated from the [[Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth]], settling in [[Leipzig]].<ref name="psb11"/> Together with [[Tadeusz Kościuszko]], he proposed a plan for a French-Polish alliance of republics, that was however not met with much support in France.<ref name="psb11"/> He co-authored a work with [[Hugo Kołłątaj]], ''On the Adoption and Fall of the Polish Constitution of 3 May'' (''O ustanowieniu i upadku Konstytucji Polskiej 3-go Maja'', 1793).<ref name="psb11"/>

Potocki participated in preparations for the [[Kościuszko Uprising]] of 1794.<ref name="psb12"/> In early April he left Leipzig and arrived in [[Kraków]].<ref name="psb12"/> He was involved in unsuccessful diplomatic negotiations with various foreign powers, in a vain attempt to gain support for the insurgents.<ref name="psb12"/> During the Uprising he served as a member of the [[Supreme National Council]] (''{{Lang|pl|Rada Najwyższa Narodowa}}''), as a chief of its diplomatic department.<ref name="psb12"/> Upon suppression of the Uprising, instead of emigrating again, he took part in the surrender negotiations, which gained him respect in many quarters.<ref name="psb13"/> Eventually on 21 December 1794 he was imprisoned by the [[Tsarist]] Russian authorities.<ref name="psb12"/> He has lost most of his wealth following the Uprising, as most of his estates were confiscated.<ref name="psb13"/><ref name="Bauer66"/> Near the end of his life he would be troubled by his inability to pay off debts from the 1780s.<ref name="psb13"/>

Released in 1796, following the death of Catherine the Great, Potocki retired to [[Kurów]], Puławy county (central Poland).<ref name="psb13"/> There he devoted himself to historical studies, publishing several books, translations and commentaries.<ref name="psb13"/><ref name="psb14"/> He also wrote poems, but those were never published during his lifetime.<ref name="psb13"/> Historians still debate over his potential authorship of several anonymous works (primarily political brochures).<ref name="psb13"/><ref name="psb14"/> He distanced himself from activists discussing a new insurrection, but was nonetheless arrested and imprisoned by the Austrian authorities again in the years 1798–1800.<ref name="psb13"/> In 1801 he joined the [[Warsaw Scientific Society]].<ref name="psb13"/> He returned to politics shortly after much of Galicia was liberated by [[Napoleon]] and attached to the [[Duchy of Warsaw]].<ref name="psb14"/> During the negotiations with Napoleon in Dresden he contracted severe [[diarrhea]] and died on 30 August 1809.<ref name="psb14"/> He was buried in [[Wilanów]].<ref name="psb14"/>

He had no direct descendants, his only surviving daughter, Krystyna, (born 1778) died in 1800.<ref name="psb14"/> His reduced estates were inherited by a nephew, [[Aleksander Potocki]].<ref name="psb14"/>