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: Maria Theresia the TV Series: The End

[felis]

;)

To be fair, though, I got curious, skimmed PolKor, and lest you think Fritz is exaggerating, here's Kaunitz in just a few of his own words, from his report to MT:

[...] As soon as I entered his study, the King made me sit down, and, to further my project and without giving him time to start the conversation, I told him first: that I had come to profit with great pleasure from the honor which he wished to do me by conversing with me; but that, as I did not in any way resemble either my predecessors or my contemporaries in politics, I was far from taking the advantage that was, according to them, in being able to listen and not having to place your bet first. As I wanted our conversation to be of some use, I begged him to kindly begin by listening quietly and without interrupting me to everything I would say to him. That I thought I had to do it that way, because I was very happy to put him in a position to be able to judge by the things I would say to him, what he thought he could say to me from his side, as well as the tone which he could take with me after having heard me.

Re: Maria Theresia the TV Series: The End

[mildred_of_midgard]

Lol! Well, that checks out. :D

And no, I don't think Fritz was exaggerating--I think Fritz was telling the truth, and that he was someone who would be particularly put out by an encounter like this, since *he's* supposed to do most of the talking!