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

[mildred_of_midgard]

"It must not be expected to meet here with a minute detail of the wars carried on in this age. Everything that happens is not worthy of the record.' This is a sentiment which one can only humbly echo.

Hahaha. There is a lot of military history out there, it's true, but good military history is harder to come by. I have opinions.

Consider me entirely unsurprised battles weren't Voltaire's priority in "The Age of Louis XIV", which I really must read one of these days.

Same, it's on my list if I make to studying French! And I have to say, reading all these Schultz bios is leading me back to sources in French that I can't read, thus supplying me with more motivation... :)

'I hate Prince Eugene in the most Christian way I can'

LOL, that is so great. Maintenon, if you think that's bad, just wait until his cousin Victor Amadeus defects again! (again again) :D

To which I say, since any such kid would have lacked not just the FW type parenting but the FW introduced military schooling, starting essentially at age 7, and definitely would have lacked the well cared for, well drilled Prussian army and the nicely filled treasury:

Yeah, as you and I have agreed, recreating the army and filling the treasury were not a thing that Fritz, for all his military genius, was going to do on his own.