Frederick the Great and Other 18th-C Characters, Discussion Post 31

[cahn]

And in this post:

-luzula is going to tell us about the Jacobites and the '45!

-I'm going to finish reading Nancy Goldstone's book about Maria Theresia and (some of) her children Maria Christina, Maria Carolina, and Marie Antoinette, In the Shadow of the Empress, and selenak is going to tell us all the things wrong with the last four chapters (spoiler: in the first twenty chapters there have been many, MANY things wrong)!

-mildred_of_midgard is going to tell us about Charles XII of Sweden and the Great Northern War

(seriously, how did I get so lucky to have all these people Telling Me Things, this is AWESOME)

-oh, and also there will be Yuletide signups :D

Comments

Re: Kloosterhuis: Long Fellows

[cahn]

"why are you all down on my guy FW? Everyone else was after tall soldiers, too, including August the Strong and Peter the Great! "

Lol! And apparently Peter the Great also did amateur genetics :P

ALSO, the spectacular beauty of a Prussian drilled army was admired by every contemporary while simultanously sneering at FW for his tall guy fetish!

HAHAHAHA -- I mean, I can see how this could be true but also... there's a difference between the army and the Potsdam Giants, no?

Kloosterhuis puts out that he himself got some and Heinrich got some, even little Ferdinand later got some, but Dad's fave AW did not.

Iiiinteresting, like mildred says!

BTW, Kloosterhuis says it's slander that FW portrayed every one of them, but he did portray around 30, and also did group pictures.

ahahahaha omg! IDK, with all the policing of weddings taking up his precious time, 30 seems like a lot!

These kind of documents with the plain equation of humans with animals underline like nothing else the de-humanisation of the slave trade.

*shiver* Yeah, that's just chilling.

And this is FW's idea of how his tall guys should celebrate their weddings (like I said, no detail to minute for FW):

OMG, FW!