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: Charlemagne and Irene

[cahn]

Ohhhhh right! I knew that but it was definitely in my passive memory so I didn't make the connection :)

(I am reminded of Fritz' friend/pet academic La Mettrie, who overate, got bled, and died of what we think was septic shock from unclean bleeding equipment.)

I think I forgot salon thought it was septic shock -- I do remember he died suddenly after claiming there was no harm in getting bled and doing so, from when I wrote the Voltaire fandom AU...

Re: Charlemagne and Irene

[mildred_of_midgard]

Well, "salon" = me in this case, and you agreed it made sense: symptoms and tentative diagnosis.

We could be wrong!