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: The Great Northern War: Charles in Saxony

[mildred_of_midgard]

Say, is Voltaire also the source for the Saxons loving Charles?

I don't know the source, but I was actually going to comment today that "the Saxons loved Charles" is another one of those things that my pro-Charles sources say but that is strikingly like *other* Fritzian claims I've encountered, so it's another thing I'm reporting without necessarily believing.