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mildred_of_midgard ([personal profile] mildred_of_midgard) wrote in [personal profile] cahn 2021-05-23 12:32 pm (UTC)

Re: War of the Spanish Succession: Bleinheim - Gossipy Sexuality Debate

However, 21st century dictionaries are supposed to be better versed about which sources are fakes!

They're not! But now I'm proud of myself, for lo, this happened:

I was finishing a book on the battle of Malplaquet yesterday, published in 2020, and it cited the Ligne memoirs of Eugene. I was very surprised, I turned up the memoirs on Google books, read the first couple pages, and went, "This seems fake."

Ha! Thank you for googling this from a scholarly angle and confirming.

Ever since we got burned by Austrian Trenck's not being by Austrian Trenck (per Stollberg-Rilinger), I've been on the alert.

Re: Eugene's coolness: Eugene fandom was such a thing in the 18th century that, may I remind you, Fritz' idea of coding his requests for more cash from sugar daddies in his letters was asking for copies of "The Life of Prince Eugene".

Re: Eugene's coolness, I was trying to get someone to nominate him for Yuletide in 2019!

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