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) )

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Re: Napoleon: Hot or Not

[selenak]

I never wondered about Voltaire's size, but given that he and Fritz are depicted as about equal in stature in any drawings, engravings and the like showing them both together...