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: Artichokes and other quotes

[selenak]

Only abridged ones. I had to track down the unabridged version published by Volz. And voila, in the 1752 testament:

All hail to the Royal Detective. Victor Amadeus fanboying it was!

Augustus is a pudding in comparison, and possibly your dream boss

Brühl: I can confirm that, or at least the pop culture image of me can, since Selena hasn't read a biography yet.

Re: Artichokes and other quotes

[mildred_of_midgard]

All hail to the Royal Detective. Victor Amadeus fanboying it was!

Things like this are why I really need to get my French reading speed up! There's so much we still haven't read.

Instead, I can now read 2 Danish fairy tales per day, barring a particularly bad day, with increasingly little reference to the translation.

Brühl: I can confirm that, or at least the pop culture image of me can, since Selena hasn't read a biography yet.

Haha. I'll be curious if the "Medici, Richelieu, and Rothschild" image of him has anything to offer salon, or if it's too enamored of its subject to have redeeming value.