Whereas, say, a contemporary loyal Prussian subject like Lehndorff who doesn't doubt the "the King was right, he had to attack first, the Saxons would have stabbed us in the back otherwise" and the "the King is a genius!" premise, is also able to later in the war (which of course he sees the results of first hand) go "so maybe the King shouldn't have insulted all the powerful women in Europe all the time?" and "the Austrian generals are called cowards by us, but can't help but notice they lose way less people and have provoked the King in some rash costly battles" .
<3 Or, I mean, it could just be that Lehndorff is the best :D *sparkly hearts him* No, but seriously, I get your meaning. And we know that he's loyal and not a particularly radical thinker, at all.
he can't with MT and in general has a sort of begrudging Frederician respect for her
I gotta say that the MT-fan part of me is doing the mental equivalent of sticking my tongue out at him. Everyone has to accept that MT was awesome! (I mean, more of me is sad about the slut-shaming. I'm just saying.)
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Re: Some biographers, ugh
Date: 2020-01-25 10:03 pm (UTC)Whereas, say, a contemporary loyal Prussian subject like Lehndorff who doesn't doubt the "the King was right, he had to attack first, the Saxons would have stabbed us in the back otherwise" and the "the King is a genius!" premise, is also able to later in the war (which of course he sees the results of first hand) go "so maybe the King shouldn't have insulted all the powerful women in Europe all the time?" and "the Austrian generals are called cowards by us, but can't help but notice they lose way less people and have provoked the King in some rash costly battles" .
<3 Or, I mean, it could just be that Lehndorff is the best :D *sparkly hearts him* No, but seriously, I get your meaning. And we know that he's loyal and not a particularly radical thinker, at all.
he can't with MT and in general has a sort of begrudging Frederician respect for her
I gotta say that the MT-fan part of me is doing the mental equivalent of sticking my tongue out at him. Everyone has to accept that MT was awesome! (I mean, more of me is sad about the slut-shaming. I'm just saying.)