Frederick the Great discussion post 11

[cahn]

In our last installment, our heroes found that Henri de Catt's memoirs, a major source for current biographers of Frederick the Great, are not to be trusted!!

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[selenak]

Briefly, because in haste - Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie as far as I know is the digitized form of a late 19th century source with all the biases you'd expect, and none of the Information learned since then.

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[mildred_of_midgard]

Yep, had gathered as much (although saying so is helpful for cahn in keeping up). Wikipedia's reliance on it explains a lot.