Historical Characters, Including Frederick the Great, Discussion Post 40

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I'm trying to use my other account at least occasionally so I posted about my Yuletide gifts there, including the salon-relevant 12k fic that features Fritz, Heinrich, Voltaire, Fredersdorf, Saint Germain, Caroline Daum (Fredersdorf's wife), and Groundhog Day tropes! (Don't need to know canon.)

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Re: Voltaire about Eugene

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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...

LOLOLOLOL!

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.

Ha! Excellent!