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Mitchell: Fritz asked for my opinion on his collected works and took my criticism along with the praise in good spirits, this in the middle of a war where he was looking for scapegoats to abuse left, right and center. Supposedly, he also cried at my funeral, though I wouldn't know about that. What does make me the superior envoy, though, is that I managed to be friendly with him and Heinrich at the same time without either one getting paranoid on me, and that I didn't have to waste lots of bribery money on this. As opposed to all those Lives of Prince Eugene you threw at Fritz without ever getting some political capital in return. I died in Berlin, and Heinrich paid for a bust of me to be put in a church. You were kidnapped in your old age so they could get Moritz of Dessau back, and I didn't see anyone in the Prussian military, some of which had hung out with you and FW back in the day, intervening on your behalf. I rest my case.

Poniatowski: Did any of you get deflowered by the sexiest monarch of Europe, Catherine the Great? You did not. Nor did you end up on a throne as a result, however tragically this ended up being. This isn't even a competition, people.