Announcing Rheinsberg: Frederick the Great discussion post 10

[cahn]

So for anyone who is reading this and would like to learn more about Frederick the Great and his contemporaries, but who doesn't want to wade through 500k (600k?) words worth of comments and an increasingly sprawling comment section:

We now have a community, rheinsberg, that has quite a lot of the interesting historical content (and more coming regularly), organized nicely with lots of lovely tags so if there's any subject you are interested in it is easy to find :D

Comments

Re: MacDonogh Reread I

[cahn]

'That idiot Leibniz, who wants to teach me about the infinitesimally small! Has he therefore forgotten that I am the wife of Frederick the First, how can he imagine that I am unacquainted with my own husband?'

Okay, this is super mean but it is HILARIOUS!

'Gentlemen, our good master is dead,' he told his father’s courtiers. 'The new king bids you all go to hell.'

This sounds like a very intriguing work of historical fiction and maybe I shall read it :D

(That is, this sounds like the kind of story that might or might not be true and probably isn't cited but the bio seems very readable and with lots of interesting stories.)

Even I knew about Caesarion, lol! Okay, in my case because of reading Judith Tarr's historical fiction, but anyway.

Re: MacDonogh Reread I

[mildred_of_midgard]

Okay, this is super mean but it is HILARIOUS!

Isn't it?

this sounds like the kind of story that might or might not be true and probably isn't cited

I just ran into it in Lavisse, so it's at least a story that goes back to the 19th century!

the bio seems very readable and with lots of interesting stories

Definitely lots of interesting stories; readable...well, your mileage may vary, but I find the style very dry. I found Blanning a much more effortless read.

But if it weren't for MacDonogh reporting on Mimi (yes, he got the gender wrong, but none of us knew that story at all!) I don't think I would have gotten intrigued enough to go looking into Suhm, who is now one of my favorite Fritz boyfriends. <3

So deeeeefinitely glad I read him.