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 Decision-making Characters: Rottembourg

[cahn]

disguising non-theological literature as the bible

Wait, what? Remind me? Lol Seckendorff :P :)

Re: 1730 Decision-making Characters: Rottembourg

[mildred_of_midgard]

https://cahn.dreamwidth.org/167303.html?thread=1880455#cmt1880455

Blanning: Even Count Seckendorf had to smuggle in books to Wusterhausen, lest he be suspected of wasting on reading time that might have been better employed in hunting, drinking or praying.

selenak: LOL. See, there were Austrian books to be had which were not code for money, Fritz!

ETA: Disguising contraband books as the Bible was Selena's speculation as to how the smuggling worked; he could also have been hiding them in false trunk bottoms, for example. (But I love the idea of fake covers.) I also don't have a primary source for this; Blanning cites a 1941 bio of FW by a Nazi sympathizer, which so far I have neither acquired nor asked Selena to inflict on herself.