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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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mildred_of_midgard

That's the other book I wanted to ask you about! Only you've stated that you're not as interested as I am in foreign policy, and reviews of it indicated that it wasn't strong on the human interest angle. So I only asked you to check out the biography, but I'm grateful that you decided to grab this one too. Unfortunately, it is not to be found online for sale, at any price.

In other news, I found an article online that I think you'd be interested in,

selenak, "'In the Greatest Wildness of my Youth': Sir Charles Hanbury Williams and Mid-Eighteenth-Century Libertinism," from 2016. If you can't access the link, let me know and I'll put it in the library for you.
It definitely fleshes out the picture, as well as including a critical historiography on the subject of treatments of Hanbury-Williams, and a decent bibliography in the footnotes.

From said footnotes, I notice the author published a book length treatment of Poniatowski and his Anglophilia, The Last King of Poland and English Culture in 1998, which looks worth reading. Alas, not to be had for less than $122, but there's the Stabi link if you have time and interest.

ETA: Because of reasons, I will probably not be able to reply to the rest of the amazing H-W write-ups immediately, but I will! and

cahn and I were marveling at you again in email this morning. :)

Edited Date: 2023-03-19 05:50 pm (UTC)

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mildred_of_midgard

Judging by the title and publication date (1930), this is probably another "authorized biography", but as Hanbury-Williams showed us, even hagiographies can have interesting info: Graf von Brühl: der Medici, Richelieu und Rothschild seiner Zeit.

(I was looking for a better bio of August the Strong in the bibliography of the book on Poland I'm dipping into; didn't find one, but found this. I mean, there probably *is* one in here, it's just that 90% of the references are in Polish.)