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

[cahn]

More diaries of our favorite 18th-century Prussian diary-keeper have been unearthed and have been synopsized!

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

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Re: Lehndorff replies

[cahn]

Oh, those are pretty! I'm particularly taken by the third and fourth pictures.

(But if I had to look at it every day, still prefer English. :) )

Gardens

[mildred_of_midgard]

Even Sophia of Hanover, responsible for the beautiful French gardens at Herrenhausen that Selena has shown us, apparently found those at Versailles just a bit too much:

...the beauty of Versailles, where money has worked greater wonders than nature. If I had to choose, I would prefer St. Cloud.

I was also tickled at Louis ordering his people to prepare the view for her, since the fountains at Versailles didn't go off without preparation. Wikipedia says the fountain at Herrenhausen was the tallest in Europe!

Moral of the story: build your palace near a ready source of water, at an elevation where it can access that water.