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: Asprey 2

[mildred_of_midgard]

LOL. But Mildred, this is the first time I can believe it, for isn't it the classic situation of older sibling forced to babsysit younger sibling when he'd rather be doing something else?

Just to clarify what I meant in the original post, it's perfectly *plausible* that it was Heinrich. I'm just skeptical about Asprey's unsourced claim that he knows it *was*. And if it was Heinrich, and he was 10, Fritz is being a bit unreasonable in expecting him to care more about philosophy than food. That's all I meant. (And I mean it even more now that you've pointed out that the 10-yo is still living on the FW Diet back home!)