Flemming, like Eugene, was first impressed and then less so, probably because my spy tells tended to be a bit on the colorful and less on the factual side.
Hee. That... explains a lot about what follows.
she dares to compare me to Tiberius, and even though I hated my Latin and ancient history lessons, I know that wasn't a compliment.
Heh, I snorted.
FW and Old Dessauer: *have a scene of manly tears where old Dessauer says if FW believes this of him, he should kill him right away. Take up your sword again or take up me!*
FW: *takes up Dessauer*
Okay, I admit that was a bit endearing, but mostly on Dessauer's side. (A bit on FW's, okay.)
My scepticism regarding the use of torture or the threat of torture as a truth finding instrument will not come up again in 1730, though.
Heh.
A plus compassionate ruler, FW! My last speech will emphasize that, and also that while I did con you, I did it because I wanted you to be alert to all the CATHOLIC skeeviness going on in Vienna and Saxony.
That's kind of interesting, actually. I don't know that I would have still been so set on this when about to be hanged, ubt maybe he was hoping for a last-minute reprieve.
"I, FW, declare to bear no grudge against Manteuffel and Flemming, and to respect them in the way their qualities deserve"
HA.
FW: *death glare at all his tobacco chums*
FW: *does not visit the tobacco college ever again*
FW: *does not forgive if people give him the impression they are ditching him for the rising sun, not ever*
Okay, I admit that was a bit endearing, but mostly on Dessauer's side. (A bit on FW's, okay.)
Old Dessaur is probably the closest thing FW had to a soulmate. What with inventing the brutal modern drill that created the Prussian soldiers as the world would know them, the passion for hunting, the distrust of scholarly education (hence his sons not getting a lot of it, or according to Lehndorf, one of them none), and as far as one can tell the lack of bribery. I do suspect that Fritz' lack of mourning as evidenced in the letterly exchange with Frederdorf on the topic was because of this. He respected the man and what he'd done, but as opposed to his father, when he couldn't show ambiguity once he was King anymore, he could re: Old Dessauer.
Clement saying in his death speech that while he lied, he did it in the greater cause of alerting FW to all the Catholic infamy going on against him in Vienna and Dresden: I see several possibilities. He may have believed it himself at this point. The most successful liars are the ones believing their own lies. He may have wanted just what he got - a quick death so it was only his dead body which got the hot pliers. Or he may indeed have hoped for a last minute pardon, given that FW had visited him in prison so often and had made it clear he still wasn't sure what to believe. Never underestimate the power of hope.
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Re: Le Diable: The Political Biography - B
Date: 2021-03-14 01:06 am (UTC)Hee. That... explains a lot about what follows.
she dares to compare me to Tiberius, and even though I hated my Latin and ancient history lessons, I know that wasn't a compliment.
Heh, I snorted.
FW and Old Dessauer: *have a scene of manly tears where old Dessauer says if FW believes this of him, he should kill him right away. Take up your sword again or take up me!*
FW: *takes up Dessauer*
Okay, I admit that was a bit endearing, but mostly on Dessauer's side. (A bit on FW's, okay.)
My scepticism regarding the use of torture or the threat of torture as a truth finding instrument will not come up again in 1730, though.
Heh.
A plus compassionate ruler, FW! My last speech will emphasize that, and also that while I did con you, I did it because I wanted you to be alert to all the CATHOLIC skeeviness going on in Vienna and Saxony.
That's kind of interesting, actually. I don't know that I would have still been so set on this when about to be hanged, ubt maybe he was hoping for a last-minute reprieve.
"I, FW, declare to bear no grudge against Manteuffel and Flemming, and to respect them in the way their qualities deserve"
HA.
FW: *death glare at all his tobacco chums*
FW: *does not visit the tobacco college ever again*
FW: *does not forgive if people give him the impression they are ditching him for the rising sun, not ever*
Oh maaaaan. FW!
Re: Le Diable: The Political Biography - B
Date: 2021-03-14 11:45 am (UTC)Okay, I admit that was a bit endearing, but mostly on Dessauer's side. (A bit on FW's, okay.)
Old Dessaur is probably the closest thing FW had to a soulmate. What with inventing the
brutalmodern drill that created the Prussian soldiers as the world would know them, the passion for hunting, the distrust of scholarly education (hence his sons not getting a lot of it, or according to Lehndorf, one of them none), and as far as one can tell the lack of bribery. I do suspect that Fritz' lack of mourning as evidenced in the letterly exchange with Frederdorf on the topic was because of this. He respected the man and what he'd done, but as opposed to his father, when he couldn't show ambiguity once he was King anymore, he could re: Old Dessauer.Clement saying in his death speech that while he lied, he did it in the greater cause of alerting FW to all the Catholic infamy going on against him in Vienna and Dresden: I see several possibilities. He may have believed it himself at this point. The most successful liars are the ones believing their own lies. He may have wanted just what he got - a quick death so it was only his dead body which got the hot pliers. Or he may indeed have hoped for a last minute pardon, given that FW had visited him in prison so often and had made it clear he still wasn't sure what to believe. Never underestimate the power of hope.