Says the man who was on the prowl for a sugar daddy all through the 1730s!
But Mildred, that's the point! Of course he likes people who pay better. He always did! The ones who get paid surely are the competition!
More seriously, those 1730s activities do make that high and mightiness about the Marquise de Pompadour awfully hypocritical. Not just on Fritz' part, but on the part of many of his biographers. "The greedy mistress of Louis XV" and so forth. I do remember that letter to Wilhelmine saying "Eh, you can offer her this and that sum" (if she persuaded Louis to change alliances again), I suppose, and that Madame la Marquise turned the offer down.
Re: But what is really going on here?: The Austrian Dossier (Seckendorff III)
Says the man who was on the prowl for a sugar daddy all through the 1730s!
But Mildred, that's the point! Of course he likes people who pay better. He always did! The ones who get paid surely are the competition!
More seriously, those 1730s activities do make that high and mightiness about the Marquise de Pompadour awfully hypocritical. Not just on Fritz' part, but on the part of many of his biographers. "The greedy mistress of Louis XV" and so forth. I do remember that letter to Wilhelmine saying "Eh, you can offer her this and that sum" (if she persuaded Louis to change alliances again), I suppose, and that Madame la Marquise turned the offer down.