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: Snark and other miscellanea

[mildred_of_midgard]

Well done, virus! May your total recovery be swift, and your long-term effects nonexistent.

That is a very sense-making approach.

I'm also of the opinion that much detail of the history of Russia will be too obscure to make it into English sources, and ditto Polish, and Danish. (Honestly, you should all be impressed at my self-restraint in not setting out to learn Russian and Polish, but I know my limits. :P) I was reading Norman Davies' intro to his history of Poland yesterday, and he says the same thing: that there's much material that he, as a Brit, is handicapped in writing about Poland.

And I'm still grateful Hahn pointed us towards Poniatowski's detailed take on Fritzian economic warfare vis a vis Poland and Saxony.

As are we, and grateful to you for reading both Hahn (whom Blanning pointed us to in turn), and Poniatowski!