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: Exchanges

[selenak]

I would nominate the 3rd century Roman Emperors for you if push came to shove and cahn won't do it. :)

Re: the crazy Medici, on the one hand, I would, but otoh, the ones I'm interested are probably not the ones you're interested in. I mean, I'm just guessing here, but I suspect it's Gian Gastone and Giuliano Dami, and GG's uncle the Cardinal, whereas me: MARGUERITE LOUISE ALL THE WAY! She's whom I'd request and write in that fandom. And then the Electress and GG's maligned-by-Harold-Acton wife who was smart enough not to move to Italy, but gimme that crazy French lady and her single mindedness to return by which she defeats Cosimo and everyone else. Oh, and her befriending Liselotte, of all the people, in her old age.

Meaning: I could nominate your faves but would not request them, and then you couldn't write them.

Re: Exchanges

[cahn]

haha I could conceivably be talked into nominating them :) (But I have another idea in the other comment, of course!)

Meaning: I could nominate your faves but would not request them, and then you couldn't write them.

IDK about the crazy Medici, but I could totally imagine other people requesting 3rd century Roman emperors!

Re: Exchanges

[mildred_of_midgard]

Meaning: I could nominate your faves but would not request them, and then you couldn't write them.

IDK about the crazy Medici, but I could totally imagine other people requesting 3rd century Roman emperors!

I mean, my ideal outcome is that there are 4 fandoms I could hypothetically write, but no one requests anything except Fritz, and then I get assigned to either of you two. :D

But if someone requests 3rd century Roman emperors and I get assigned to write them, I should be able to produce something (again, assuming I decide I can produce anything at all), and then hopefully treat at least one of you.

*ponders*

Re: Exchanges

[mildred_of_midgard]

Ah, yes, your fave Marguerite Louise. :D Yeah, the ones I would be up for writing would be GG and GD, the Cardinal uncle, Ferdinando, Violante Beatrice, and maaaybe Anna Maria Luisa. The others would require more research for me. (I do own a bio on the much-maligned wife of GG, but I haven't put it through my translation algorithms yet, because the author's other works that I read, on GD and GG, were...not inspiring.)

3rd century Roman emperors it shall be! (Assuming I sign up, still debating.)