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: Isabella of Parma

[selenak]

Argh, then I do confuse her with the other Austrian biographer who wrote about Margaret! I read them both at the same time, and I renember disliking one and liking the other very much.

Re: the Louis XI film - I suspect the Anne/Louis d'Orleans flirtation pre her marriage was something the movie invented to make Anne more vulnerable and give her an obstacle to overcome beyond general machismo, but within the movie's universe, it works. Also, ever keeping Fritz/MT in mind, maybe it did happen? We'd have to read a biography to find out, I guess. (Sarah Gristwood doesn't mention it, but then Anne is one of a huge ensemble of female main characters in her book.)

Re: Isabella of Parma

[mildred_of_midgard]

Oh, good, then! If you liked her very much, I might order the Isabella bio. (After I move, because I don't know when it will arrive and thus don't know which address to send it to.)

I'm also thinking of ordering a Leopold II bio. I'm undecided between Pelham, which has the advantage of being shorter and thus something I'm more likely to make it through, and Wandruszka, which has the advantage of not having been read by you already, which means it may contain new-to-salon information.

Currently, I'm--well, currently I'm moving, but when not moving, I'm alternating between Füssel and Jürgen Luh's bio of the Great Elector, which is on Kindle!