Historical Characters, Including Frederick the Great, Discussion Post 40

[cahn]

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: The Age of Louis XIV: 2

[selenak]

It's not that Voltaire doesn't have his share of biases and contradictions (see also: "Fritz, why don't you join Catherine and Joseph on an anti-Turkish crusade?"), but "taking other people's territories, exploiting them, and then exporting wars to them = bad!" is not an equation I see many other people in the 18th century draw about their own nation. (You can always find people going on about how competing country X' barbarisms.) It's things like these that make his champion-of-Enlightenment moniker earned.

Re: Voltaire: The Age of Louis XIV: 2

[felis]

Yeah, all of this was interesting to read, but this part in particular stood out to me!