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: How Brühl got his job

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His two conditions were not holding the wedding in Dresden, and of course, raising the kids Catholic. The second part was easy, the first part surprisingly difficult.

haha, that's... not the order these things usually go in in the modern world! Lol.

Nonsense, says Fellmann, Brühl also happened to be a family man with a close relationship with his wife. It's not that complicated.

Lol, that's hilarious that his contemporaries can't see why he couldn't possibly be faithful to his wife!! So weird!!