Historical Characters, Including Frederick the Great, Discussion Post 42

[cahn]

Last post, we had (among other things) Danish kings and their favorites; Louis XIV and Philippe d'Orléans; reviews of a very shippy book about Katte, a bad Jacobite novel, and a great book about clothing; a fic about Émilie du Châtelet and Voltaire; and a review of a set of entertaining Youtube history videos about Frederick the Great.

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Re: Your Mission: Composing a Manifesto

[mildred_of_midgard]

I suspect it's related to something you said recently:

Incidentally, this quote from Primi Visconti - that I was twenty five years old already and had a beard. He replied that Frenchmen of taste neither were bothered by the age nor the beard - tells you something about Visconti (a straight man) expecting gay men to be only interested in teenage boys and young beardless men in their early 20s, while the Marquis de La Valliere evidently finds men of all ages attractive.

Not that Blanning is unwilling to let Fritz have relationships with men his own age, like Algarotti, but I suspect the pederastic narrative is in the back of his, and other people's, minds.

I must admit I really hope he didn't get too handsy with a 15 years old entirely dependent on the all powerful King

Same!