18th-Century Characters, Including Frederick the Great, Discussion Post 35

[cahn]

In the previous post Charles II found AITA:

Look, I, m, believe in live and let live. (And in not going on my travels again. Had enough of that to last a life time.) Why can't everyone else around me be more chill? Instead, my wife refuses to employ my girlfriend, my girlfriend won't budge and accept another office, my brother is set on a course to piss off everyone (he WILL go on his travels again), and my oldest kid shows signs of wanting my job which is just not on, sorry to say. And don't get me started about Mom (thank God she's living abroad). What am I doing wrong? AITA?

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Re: Louis XIV gossip

[cahn]

the Chevalier actually had a great time in Rome, which included an affair with.... drumroll.... Marie Mancini, aka Louis' first love (and as the sister of Eugene's mother Olympe the aunt of Eugene

Wow! I am always feeling like actual history is more soap opera-ish than made-up history :D Though I suppose with a much larger cast, which would be unwieldy.

Though this is all making me think, they should make a TV series about Algarotti...

Re: Louis XIV gossip

[selenak]

A tv series about Algarotti would be great and would offer plenty of actors from various nationalities awesome character roles. Also it would be bound to infuriate The Worst Fanboys and generally right wingers who'd protest that clearly, bisexuals came into existence only in the 20th century and the tv series was falsifying history, so that's a plus, too.