Frederick the Great, Discussion Post 19

[cahn]

Yuletide nominations:

18th Century CE Federician RPF
Maria Theresia | Maria Theresa of Austria
Voltaire
Friedrich II von Preußen | Frederick the Great
Ernst Ahasverus von Lehndorff
Friedrich Heinrich Ludwig von Preußen | Henry of Prussia (1726-1802)
Wilhelmine von Preußen | Wilhelmine of Prussia (1709-1758)
Anna Amalie von Preußen | Anna Amalia of Prussia (1723-1787)
Catherine II of Russia
Hans Hermann von Katte
Peter Karl Christoph von Keith
Michael Gabriel Fredersdorf
August Wilhelm von Preußen | Augustus William of Prussia (1722-1758)

Circle of Voltaire RPF
Emilie du Chatelet
Jeanne Antoinette Poisson (Madame de Pompadour)
John Hervey (1696-1743)
Marie Louise Mignot Denis
Lady Mary Wortley-Montagu
Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis
Armand de Vignerot du Plessis de Richelieu (1696-1788)
Francesco Algarotti

Comments

Re: Stratemann

[selenak]

Seckendorff: Young man, granted, you got laid and crowned, but did you achieve anything for either Saxony or Poland from the Russians? You didn't. Meanwhile, I had FW conducting Imperial-friendly policy until the wedding of Junior with our candidate of choice, and the reason it didn't continue this way had nothing with me but with fools in Vienna suddenly reversing course on the candidate of choice. I therefore still lay claim to the crown of most successful envoy. As for you, Mitchell, no matter how much the royal brothers liked you, did Fritz do anything for Great Britain? As I recall from my lodgings in Magdeburg, he kept asking for more money, talked trash about the Hannovers' family lives and your PM's political craft, and then named asses after your politicians when the the subsidies stopped altogether. Neither of you got your target monarch to act against his own interests and in yours, which is what I achieved. I am the very model of a major envoy general.

Re: Stratemann

[mildred_of_midgard]

Poniatowski: Naturally, I expect nothing less than goalpost-moving from your devious self. Originally the argument was about personal concessions, and then when you lost, suddenly it became about political accomplishments. Don't think we don't see what you did there.

As I recall from my lodgings in Magdeburg...I am the very model of a major envoy general.

Mitchell: You contradict yourself, sir. :P You got your country to pour money into Fritz's pockets, and what did you get out of it? An invasion of your richest province and an imprisonment of your person. We gave Fritz money and actually kept him from invading our province.

did Fritz do anything for Great Britain?

Mitchell: He sent us Ferdinand of Brunswick?

I am the very model of a major envoy general.

Mildred: I laughed!

Re: Stratemann

[cahn]

I am the very model of a major envoy general.

*chokes with laughter*