They founded their judgment on certain sallies of youth, by which we are never to judge of men.
Evidently not!
Teenagers acting out: sometimes they become Commodus, sometimes Eugene of Savoy...
Incidentally, since Voltaire can't have read Liselotte's letters, as he writes his Age of Louis XIV in the 1740s, with access only to memoirs and letters published until that point plus whatever stories he personally heard from surviving old timers as a boy and young man, I would say that's some contemporary evidence that there was at least "loose living" type of gossip about Eugene's youth making the rounds independent from Liselotte.
Re: Voltaire about Eugene
Evidently not!
Teenagers acting out: sometimes they become Commodus, sometimes Eugene of Savoy...
Incidentally, since Voltaire can't have read Liselotte's letters, as he writes his Age of Louis XIV in the 1740s, with access only to memoirs and letters published until that point plus whatever stories he personally heard from surviving old timers as a boy and young man, I would say that's some contemporary evidence that there was at least "loose living" type of gossip about Eugene's youth making the rounds independent from Liselotte.