But deeply entertaining for me, as well as a highly accurate summary!
Re hundreds of illegitimate kids: though that is certainly what people like Wilhelmine said at the time, he certainly had a lot of them, and he probably had enough sex to be having 365 or whatever illegitimate kids, my understanding is that modern historiography sees the primary sources as rather tabloidy (Wilhelmine's memoirs are more entertaining than rigorous) and puts question marks around a bunch of those offspring, bringing the total "known" illegitimate children down to a significantly lower number than 200-400. But the attribution of some 300 illegitimate children to him should tell you everything you need to know about Augustus the Strong anyway, Cahn.
Fritz: You LIKED her, you traitor. She LIKED you. I hate you forever. Wilhelmine: WTF, Fritz?
Also Fritz: *says nice things about Maria Theresia later in life, about how he respected her as a worthy opponent and a "saint" (presumably for putting up with him), after years of trashing her personally and making unprovoked war on her country* (At least so our sources say, I'm not sure we have this from the horse's mouth, but correct me if I'm wrong) Everyone: WTF, Fritz?
Re: Wilhelmine's memoirs
But deeply entertaining for me, as well as a highly accurate summary!
Re hundreds of illegitimate kids: though that is certainly what people like Wilhelmine said at the time, he certainly had a lot of them, and he probably had enough sex to be having 365 or whatever illegitimate kids, my understanding is that modern historiography sees the primary sources as rather tabloidy (Wilhelmine's memoirs are more entertaining than rigorous) and puts question marks around a bunch of those offspring, bringing the total "known" illegitimate children down to a significantly lower number than 200-400. But the attribution of some 300 illegitimate children to him should tell you everything you need to know about Augustus the Strong anyway, Cahn.
Fritz: You LIKED her, you traitor. She LIKED you. I hate you forever.
Wilhelmine: WTF, Fritz?
Also Fritz: *says nice things about Maria Theresia later in life, about how he respected her as a worthy opponent and a "saint" (presumably for putting up with him), after years of trashing her personally and making unprovoked war on her country* (At least so our sources say, I'm not sure we have this from the horse's mouth, but correct me if I'm wrong)
Everyone: WTF, Fritz?