Wait, so he actually said, non-paraphrased literal quote, "first servant of the state"?
So he did. :) (BTW, do we know when Fritz first started to use that phrase? I.e. would Ulrike have caught the implication at once?)
AW seeing both Fritz and FW as role models in terms of kingship: the inevitable result of a childhood as FW's favorite son and then an adolescence thinking Fritz was the coolest? The respect for constitutional monarchy per se is also interesting. Heinrich later was one of the few European high ranking nobles who didn't take against the French Revolution once heads started to roll, which caused one 19th century Prussian historian to helplessly speculate: Maybe he was such a Francophile that even a French Revolution was okay by him, as long as it was French?
...or maybe, just maybe, both AW in his seeing the point of limiting royal power and Heinrich seeing the point of the French Revolution reflect a personal awareness of what unlimited royal power can do, historian.
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Re: Heinrich the Younger, AW's son
Date: 2019-11-28 11:17 am (UTC)So he did. :) (BTW, do we know when Fritz first started to use that phrase? I.e. would Ulrike have caught the implication at once?)
AW seeing both Fritz and FW as role models in terms of kingship: the inevitable result of a childhood as FW's favorite son and then an adolescence thinking Fritz was the coolest? The respect for constitutional monarchy per se is also interesting. Heinrich later was one of the few European high ranking nobles who didn't take against the French Revolution once heads started to roll, which caused one 19th century Prussian historian to helplessly speculate: Maybe he was such a Francophile that even a French Revolution was okay by him, as long as it was French?
...or maybe, just maybe, both AW in his seeing the point of limiting royal power and Heinrich seeing the point of the French Revolution reflect a personal awareness of what unlimited royal power can do, historian.