Historical Characters, Including Frederick the Great, Discussion Post 39

[cahn]

Last post, along with the usual 18th-century suspects, included the Ottonians; changing ideas of conception and women's sexual pleasure; Isabella of Parma (the one who fell in love, and vice versa, with her husband's sister); Henry IV and Bertha (and Henry's second wife divorcing him for "unspeakable sexual acts"). (Okay, Isabella of Parma was 18th century.)

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Re: Fritzian Dawn according to Le Diable

[selenak]

Not mutually exclusive; i.e. "aren't you too old for a schoolmaster now" sounds like an Old Dessauer comment to make, plus no matter how amiable a front Manteuffel presented to FW and how participated in the Anti-Sobriety-Society, I doubt Old Dessauer doubted Manteuffel was still working for Saxon interests. Which aren't Prussian interests. So nipping any chance of Manteuffel getting actually close to Fritz in the bud would have made sense from that perspective. Simultanously, Manteuffel, who was writing to Brühl (who was paying him) had a vested interest in presenting himself as blameless re: the fallout, and most likely ascribed far more weight to Dessauer hostility than it deserved.

It might be worth (but also a headache, because the font was awful there as well) to look into that early Seckendorff biography again, because the Seckendorff biographer kept going on about how Prince Moustache was THE WORST and always feuding with the valiant subject of said biography, so he might have picked up such a story as well.