Historical Characters, Including Frederick the Great, Discussion Post 41

[cahn]

Now, thanks to interesting podcasts, including characters from German history as a whole and also Byzantine history! (More on this later.)

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Re: Court of Louis XIV: Madame est morte

[mildred_of_midgard]

Ha, well, maybe if it's in French [personal profile] mildred_of_midgard can read it? :)

Lol! Well, not right now, but that is exactly where we're headed! I'm on a really good streak of reading French, German, and Italian, and I have high hopes for my French this year. I would like to be able to read the memoirs, bios, and diaries for salon that we otherwise cannot read. :D

And, that, selenak, is why I may not be able to reply to your latest discussion, alas. :( But know that I feel that they just prove my point that eyewitness books belong in your (overcrowded) hands, because you do such amazing things with them, and in a perfect world I would send you ALL the eyewitness books today, and in an even more perfect world, we would rent the flat next to you and fill it with book spillover, so you could be like Crown Prince Fritz and his separate library (but without the sneaking and beatings, and without the major debts too). ;)

We'll see if I manage to reply properly this weekend, but I'm going to try very hard to start write-ups on 18th century Danish kings and their favorites (so much gossip! I had no idea! I have ordered more books and am eyeing the Danish language!), so I may not.

So much to read (and write), so little time!