Historical Characters, Including Frederick the Great, Discussion Post 45

[cahn]

Unfortunately, there was then at Berlin a King who pursued one policy only, who deceived his enemies, but not his servants, and who lied without scruple, but never without necessity.

(from The King's Secret - by Duke de Broglie, grand-nephew of the subject of the book, Comte de Broglie, and grandfather of the physicist) )

Comments

Re: How Brühl got his job

[luzula]

Hee. This is what my dad used to do before taking on Ph D students, to make sure they could write!

Re: How Brühl got his job

[cahn]

Lol! That makes a lot of sense actually!

Also, I have to say that the notification for your comment came right after the notification for "Let us not forget Duke Mazarin, who chopped off and painted over all the genitalia in the art collection he'd inherited" and although I was pretty sure that was not what your dad used to do, it did made me laugh :)

Re: How Brühl got his job

[(Anonymous)]

Ha ha, no, my dad has never done that! He never inherited an art collection, either...

Re: How Brühl got his job

[mildred_of_midgard]

Now I'm laughing! Thank you for sharing that. :D