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: Surprise meetings

[selenak]

I made it up to parallel "the Queen of Hungary", but I dimly seem to recall that one of the many books I read in recent years, possibly the Stollberg-Rillinger MT biography, said that Kaunitz when laying out his grand Diplomatic Revolution plan did include as one of the goals to make Fritz the Margrave of Brandenburg again. Though whether that was a direct quote or just his goal paraphrased, I can't recall anymore.

Also, Voltaire was living next door to Fritz for a week then, which might have attracted some trouble as well? Though he isn't mentioned in the edict.

Trouble in Voltaire's vicinity and it's not about Voltaire? Quoi? :) That is interesting, that the Aachen students were anti him instead of cheering him. Mind you, in addition to the Catholic-ness of good old Aix-La-Chappelle, MT was at this point making gains in the propaganda war, going from ridiculed to praised in many a pamphlet, while Fritz was on the one hand admired for audaciously pulling his landgrab off but otoh having dumped his allies the moment he had what he wanted had proven himself as unreliable, so there was that.