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: 1730 Trending Topics: Wittelsbach subsidies

[mildred_of_midgard]

Conclusion: Bavaria really wants and needs cash!

But that does not mean they'll make it easy on you! Simms:

Rulers were highly offended if Britain offered them too little, and sometimes if it offered anything at all. The Bavarian envoy to Paris, for example, complained in the summer of 1729 that British envoys were trying to hire his master the Elector of Bavaria like a hackney cab.

I regularly visit the park and palace he built in Munich, which is called Nymphenburg and is drop dead gorgeous.

I do not regularly visit it, but I have been there once! And it is! :)