cahn | 18th-Century Characters, Including Frederick the Great, Discussion Post 37

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January 18th: Blessed be thou to me! Under your light, my Prince Heinrich was born!

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From:

luzula

Hee, okay! Well, if you only need a minute or less to talk, rather than the longer time it takes to make out or have sex, then I can see how the hedges would help, even with the lack of nooks. : )

The stakes were high, privacy was rare, and intrigues were the air the court breathed.
I would have made such a bad French courtier...

From:

mildred_of_midgard

I think I would have checked into a monastery. :P I'm not religious, but I am an introvert, and I wouldn't have lasted long at Versailles.

From:

selenak

But Mildred, why choose a monastery if you could find earthly paradise with lots of books, only guests if you wanted them, and France’s wittiest writer in an old country house?

From:

mildred_of_midgard

I mean, if we're talking custom designing a lifestyle for me, then that, yes! (Minus the witty writer, though, tbh.) The monastery was a rhetorical device to convey just HOW repelled I am by the idea of living at Versailles, omg. D: