Historical Characters, Including Frederick the Great, Discussion Post 45

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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) )

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Re: The King's Secret: fighting Fritz

[cahn]

Being a singing teacher to a member of the nobility, like the fictional Almavivas, is respectable to good if you're a professional musician, especially if your noble actually pays you. But if you are nobility yourself, it's definitely a sign of having fallen in rank.

Ah, that makes sense. I was thinking about Mozart and Salieri, and not making the connection taht they weren't nobility.

he was, correctly as it turned out, very afraid that the same thing that happened to his wife would happen to her

Oh noooooo :((((

Respectable jobs for offspring from such a family:

Heh. This reminded me of what we used to say, if you go to an Ivy League university, it's only really acceptable for you to have a job in law, medicine, business, academia, management, technology, or consulting. Plumbing is right out!