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selenak ([personal profile] selenak) wrote in [personal profile] cahn 2021-03-13 03:32 pm (UTC)

Re: Le Diable: The Political Biography - B

At a first glimpse, it looks pretty dry, but check out page 222! It has something dear to year heart: a neat little excel thing listing which envoy got how much salary and expenses in the year 1723 (the one with the highest salary and expenses is unsurprisingly Hoym in Paris, with 8000 Reichtaler per annum and 400 additional expenses. Suhm in Berlin in the same year gets 1.800 per annum and 900 for additional expenses. And he has a lot other guys ahead of him in addition to Hoym - the envoys to London, Moscow/St. Petersburg, Vienna, Venice, Mainz, Rome and Frankfurt, in that order. Don't ask me why Mainz, other than it's one of the towns with an Archbishop who is also a prince elector. The order of the others are pretty much what I assumed, though it amuses me that St. Petersburg is already more expensive than Vienna. On page 226, however, there is a new statistics, showing that Suhm's salary has risen. In 1727, he ranks fourth after Hoym (still the one who gets the most money for being the envoy in France - in fact, Hoym gets 15% of the annual total budget), and the envoys in Moscow and London, respectively, in that order. Suhm now gets 7.200 per annum.

Oh, and Suhm's successor in 1729 was called von Polenz.

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