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: Charles Hanbury-Williams Tells It All: I

[selenak]

So *someone* thinks Eugene was having sex all over the place, since that passage doesn't sound like it's talking about his days in France. Also funny that the author picks Eugene and Dessauer, who came up recently in regards to their conversation about elderly Eugene's erections or lack thereof.

Though the pick of Dessauer is odd in that context as well, because he famously married his apothocary's daughter for love, and I don't think I've heard of him taking mistresses thereafter. Then again, he did ask Eugene on that subject. Maybe there were differentl rules for campaigns, and Old Desssauer, who hasn't met Eugene since the Battle of Malplaquet, when he and FW were youngsters and Eugene was in his prime, is asking based on what he remembers from that era?

Re: Charles Hanbury-Williams Tells It All: I

[mildred_of_midgard]

Yeah, I remember thinking no affairs for Dessauer came to mind, but then that they wouldn't necessarily for me, I don't know him that well, so I let it go. But if you don't either, then who knows. That text I linked to doesn't seem inspiringly reliable, so it's entirely possible neither Eugene nor Dessauer is based in anything real.

Maybe there were differentl rules for campaigns

But that's entirely possible too!