Historical Characters, Including Frederick the Great, Discussion Post 42

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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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Re: 1730s Saxon Diplomacy: Suhm

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Manteuffel: Send Tall Guys.

...this always makes me laugh!

I don't have to tell you how unlike a certain someone this is, do I? Brühl: your dream boss.

Heeee! Point taken, AvB.

Anna Leopoldovna: I'm not marrying the Braunschweig guy because he's not my mental equal.

Wow. And then they... really get stuck together, huh. Ouch.

Biron: I'm totally innocent!

Peter Biron: Anna, beloved playmate of my childhood, I'm absolutely delighted you rejected the dumb Braunschweig prince for bieng so dumb. Marry me instead!

Anna Leopoldovna: YOU? An icky upstart's son?!? *goes to Anna Ivanova* I've changed my mind. I'm marrying Anton Ulrich.

LOLOLOLOL!

The Russians will lust after Poland one day, and will invade it. Now this is not yet to be feared for a s long as the other courts of Europe exist, but in Russia, one has always to fear a revolution, for if the Russians withdraw within their gigantic Empire, no foreign power, however great, can pursue them into the the unending steppe.

Smart man, Suhm.

Yeeeeah.