BTW, Hartmann has this thing where he says "Struensee actually made German the official administrative language, the bastard!" (tiny footnote: okay, Bernstorff spoke German with his administrative underlings, too, but he didn't make it official, he was too much of a tactful genius to!).
OMG, this guy. I'm waiting to find out that he was born in 1900 and this book was published in his 80s.
Though in 1900, the Germans were usually more...pro-German, weren't they?
Charles XII: I liked German better than Swedish and was more fluent in it! Swedish >>> French, though. Especially if it's a French envoy coming to Sweden, that just goes without saying!
Presumably younger Juliana just basked in the glow of being the sister-in-law to the cool monarch everyone was talking about (and whom she'd never met)
Fair! I mean, a number of us have loved Fritz better from a distance.
Voltaire: *waves*
Re: Prussian/Danish Relations according to Stephan Hartmann: The Fritz Era
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Re: Prussian/Danish Relations according to Stephan Hartmann: The Fritz Era
OMG, this guy. I'm waiting to find out that he was born in 1900 and this book was published in his 80s.
Though in 1900, the Germans were usually more...pro-German, weren't they?
Charles XII: I liked German better than Swedish and was more fluent in it! Swedish >>> French, though. Especially if it's a French envoy coming to Sweden, that just goes without saying!
Presumably younger Juliana just basked in the glow of being the sister-in-law to the cool monarch everyone was talking about (and whom she'd never met)
Fair! I mean, a number of us have loved Fritz better from a distance.
Voltaire: *waves*
Re: Prussian/Danish Relations according to Stephan Hartmann: The Fritz Era
It's funny because it's true! :D