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.

Comments

Re: Roundtables and royal monologues

[selenak]

Andronikos Komnenos the trope changer from "rogue" to Supervillain: Pfff. I escaped from more and harder situations.

Justinian II: Fuck yeah! So did I! And with a slit nose! Reveeeeeeenge, here I come!

Prussian Trenck: And what about me? Granted, I escaped only once and the other times I tried I didn't succeed, but that's still one more time than my sovereign managed, and I had way harsher conditions to escape from!

Re: Roundtables and royal monologues

[mildred_of_midgard]

I was thinking of Trenck! And I had the same thought, which is that he only escaped once out of several tries.

that's still one more time than my sovereign managed

Ouch! But it supports my point that the Prussians in general can keep prisoners better than the Swedes, based on our sample size of 2. ;)

(Patkul: *sob*)

Re: Roundtables and royal monologues

[selenak]

I guess both Trenck (the first time around) and Springer benefited from not being intended for execution, as opposed to poor Patkul. Also, both FW and Charles VII are more frightening that whoever ruled Sweden in Springer's time (was that Ulrike's husband?).

Re: Roundtables and royal monologues

[mildred_of_midgard]

Looks like Springer's escape was in 1747 and Ulrike's husband Adolf Fredrik didn't become king until 1751, so this would be Fredrik I, originally of Hesse-Kessel and brother-in-law to Karl XII. (We've spent so long in salon and covered so many Fredericks and Charleses that I'm having to diversify the spellings as much as possible.)