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cahn ([personal profile] cahn) wrote2020-03-07 07:17 am
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Frederick the Great discussion post 13

[personal profile] mildred_of_midgard once said, every day is like Christmas in this fandom! It's true!

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Re: Katte - Species Facti 2

[personal profile] mildred_of_midgard 2020-03-23 07:35 pm (UTC)(link)
is endearing and very 18th century: "Never! I shall take a mistress!"

Ha! That is endearing and very 18th century.

Fritz to AW in 1741, before his first battle: "Take care of Algarotti, and let not poor Michael starve?" ;)

Love it!
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Re: Katte - Species Facti 2

[personal profile] selenak 2020-03-24 04:58 am (UTC)(link)
« Non, j’aurai des maitresses! because George II was, when it came down to it, a Gerrman prince, not an English one. Naturally, he spoke French to his dying wife. Whereas his (British) envoys are among the very few who write in their native language (Dickens and Mitchell both write in English, the Hannover Hofrat wrote in French). Seriously though, that's the first endearing thing I've come across from one of the Hannover Georges preceding and succeeding G3 (who might have gotten bad press from the American colonists and gone mad, but as "Farmer George" managed a couple of nice anecdotes and of course had Alan Bennet to popularize him by play and film.