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: More FS related Quotes: Prussians, Politics and Sons

[mildred_of_midgard]

(maybe someday I will figure out more dates in this fandom -- I did finally get 1730 into my head :P -- but today is not the day)

Hee, well, you're ahead of one contemporary! I was looking at my Peter fic today, because I got a comment on it yesterday, and I noticed the line "at least Ariane was glad he'd survived that terrible year of 1730." Of all the details I suspected were going to turn out historically inaccurate when I wrote that fic, and many of which did*, I never anticipated that Peter remembering the year as 1730 was going to be one of them!

* I knew making out up with Fritz was not how he got Charlottenburg and Tiergarten responsbilities, but we didn't know about Knobelsdorff yet. I strongly suspected Friedrich Ludwig was dead already in in 1777, and indeed, he was. I didn't realize Peter *did* ask Fritz for things after the early 1740s. Etc.