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: FS in three biographies: An Overview (2)

[mildred_of_midgard]

I'm really curious as to what Mildred will say, because she's read books claiming FS did make the sales with their respective sources quite recently.

Well, "books" = Hennings, which you have also read. And he cites Vehse, and Vehse does not cite anyone, so that's the sum total of my non-Fritzian evidence. It does not inspire confidence. (Vehse does not appear to be another Koser or Volz, unless I'm missing the volume where he cites his sources.)