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: The Man in the Iron Mask

[cahn]

Gosh, this is Something Else. Do... do other people believe Horowski?

Like everyone else, I love the "Saint-Mars was bored" explanation for the whole thing!

Re: The Man in the Iron Mask

[mildred_of_midgard]

Sorry, to clarify: Horowski didn't come up with this theory; he's reporting someone else's theory. Which he happens to believe in much more firmly than, say, English or German Wikipedia does (as Selena noted). He believes in it so firmly that he doesn't even acknowledge any possible doubt, which surprised both me and Selena.

I haven't read the original work his account is based on (it's in French, of course), but I might someday. I see that there's a 2021 account by a British historian who accepts this theory, and it's on Kindle; I might check that out.

And hmm, the French one is also on Kindle for a few bucks, and is fairly short. Maybe I should run it through Google translate and practice my French. ;)