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!!

rheinsberg

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Re: I have a cunning plan

[mildred_of_midgard]

Re: Maria von Katte, maybe reading her father‘s autobiography will reveal something to me that could provide a good in!

Ooh, true! Yes, read it with an eye toward becoming her BFF. What could go wrong?

Or perhaps we should assign someone to seduce her assistant, Zimmermann!Fritz-style. That will work!

Somehow, none of these cunning plans ever comes to completion...

I take hope from the fact that Fritz won the Seven Years' War through sheer persistence, if not through cunning. I too can be persistent. Proposed marriage to my wife once a year for seven years before she accepted! Maria von Katte, watch out. :P

(We just want a copy of a manuscript! Is that too much to ask? Pleeeeaase???)