Historical Characters, Including Frederick the Great, Discussion Post 44

[cahn]

Not only are these posts still going, there is now (more) original research going on in them deciphering and translating letters in archives that apparently no one has bothered to look at before?? (Which has now conclusively exonerated Fritz's valet/chamberlain Fredersdorf from the charge that he was dismissed because of financial irregularities and died shortly thereafter "ashamed of his lost honor," as Wikipedia would have it. I'M JUST SAYING.)

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Re: The King's Secret

[mildred_of_midgard]

Oh, I absolutely assumed it had to do with them both being French and the Duke having him some nationalist sensitivities. You should see Adam Zamoyski dragging August III in a similarly personal manner, it includes some of the most vicious attacks I've encountered on the part of a historian.

(You *will* see it, once I'm ready to do my write-up on August III, but I'm still trying to get my hands on a copy of his most recent biography.)