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: The Rebuttal

[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.)