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: Podewils' "FS: Hot or not?" Report

[mildred_of_midgard]

"he even has the patience to sit through entire German comedies when German comedies are clearly only for the rabble and not for people with taste!"

And like me! I was amused when I read that in Hennings. And of course I immediately had flashbacks to Christmas 1732 and salon's respective fics on the subject. :D

Podewils knows he's writing for a monarch who doesn't have anything against FS as a person

May I remind cahn of the Salmon of Eternal Friendship (conveyed through Suhm), that when Crown Prince Fritz and FS met in the 1730s they really hit it off, and Fritz thought FS was a great raconteur, and that they were both very surprised at each other's behavior in 1740-1741.

Re: Podewils' "FS: Hot or not?" Report

[cahn]

And of course I immediately had flashbacks to Christmas 1732 and salon's respective fics on the subject. :D

:D me too! in my head Fredersdorf liked it!

haha, I did remember the Salmon of Eternal Friendship!