cahn | Frederick the Great, Discussion Post 17

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cahn

...we're still going, now with added German reading group :P :D

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cahn

and all this for no end whatever except that he might extend his dominions and see his name in the gazettes.

*blinks* Seeing his name in the gazettes??

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selenak

This reminds me of the pamphlet arguing England should withdraw from the 7 Years War (after they'd gotten out of it what they wanted) where the author argues that "the King of Prussia is a King of the Press" and not a true defender of the Protestant faith, among other things. Essentially, Fritz is accused of being a glory hound. Not entirely wrongly, but methinks both Macauly and the pamphleteer are overestimating how much it was specifically the English press he wanted to impress.

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cahn

Yeah, I get that he wanted glory, but lol to impressing the English press :D

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mildred_of_midgard

So having gotten a little further in Wives, I can see that it was the Hamburg and Dutch gazettes he wanted to impress, at least in 1752. ;)

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mildred_of_midgard

Well, he definitely admitted he did it in order to make his rendezvous with fame, but I think more with an eye to posterity than to contemporaries (though also them).