18th-Century Characters, Including Frederick the Great, Discussion Post 33

[cahn]

And, I mean, it doesn't have to be just 18th century characters, either!

(also, waiting for Yuletide!)

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Re: Double marriage: Anne vs. Amelia

[selenak]

Good lord, the image of Chesterfield & FW in the same room. Now re: the bit of advice you quote in the other comment, this would actually be a good guide line with FW, who certainly hated more than anything else anything he saw as other people treating him with contempt, but for the life of me I can't imagine any English Envoy, no matter how diplomatic, avoiding FW feeling insulted in this particular era, since they'd be presenting G2.

Re: Double marriage: Anne vs. Amelia

[mildred_of_midgard]

Good lord, the image of Chesterfield & FW in the same room.

Right? Hence my exclamation mark!

Now re: the bit of advice you quote in the other comment, this would actually be a good guide line with FW

True, true. If you hate smoking, just suck on your pipe and pretend to smoke! Even the Old Dessauer did it.

Incidentally, speaking of the Tobacco Parliament, Black's take on Gundling is that he was a serious scholar who's been wronged by historians seeing him just as a court fool, but that alcoholism undermined his accomplishments. No mention of FW abuse, none.

I can't imagine any English Envoy, no matter how diplomatic, avoiding FW feeling insulted in this particular era, since they'd be presenting G2.

Yeah, I'm trying to think if there were English (or Hanoverian) envoys FW was on good terms with. He blew hot and cold toward Whitworth, as I recall, but that was G1, of course. G2...nothing's coming to mind.