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: More FS related quotes : Lorraine and Tuscany

[cahn]

Clearly he disagreed with MT on a couple of issues, and offered alternative ideas, but also clearly (as evidenced by Gotter's transcripts of their New Year's day 1741 conversations) he stuck to her party line instead of trying to sabotage her or secretly do this own thing.

FS is the best!

In Star Trek terms, basically, he was a good First Officer - offering alternatives to the Captain in the Ready Room away from the public, but once the Captain had decided. doing his best to follow her vision.

Okay, I kind of love this analogy. Now I'm imagining a Star Trek-esque SF AU where MT really is the captain of a starship... aaaand I liked FS a lot before, but now I'm having "loyal subordinate" trope-love feelings about him too :PP

(Mildred, just pointing out, his business acumen means he had a different skill set than MT! :P )

Re: More FS related quotes : Lorraine and Tuscany

[mildred_of_midgard]

(Mildred, just pointing out, his business acumen means he had a different skill set than MT! :P )

Heee! I can get behind this "MT in space!!" AU. :D It's been a long time since I wrote anything and a longer time since I wrote sci fi, but I will keep this in mind for future fic exchanges. :D