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: Pompadour gossip

[cahn]

the French prisoner whom Heinrich befriends and sends back to France in a (Fritz-authorized) attempt to get a separate peace was a member of that family and considered reliable for that reason (i.e. he already had a grudge against Reinette and thus a reason to work for a policy different from the one she supported).

Oh wow, that's interesting -- I really like when dots like this get connected for me :)

Schultz should have brought up instead that they sent her a very beautiful and expensive secretary. (Er, a table, [personal profile] cahn, not a guy.)

Lol! I did know the table/desk definition, but I absolutely just thought of the person on first look and was really confused before reading the parenthetical :) ("Why... would MT need a beautiful secretary?")