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 - B5:tRH

[cahn]

BTW, I know this isn't salon-related any more, but just very quickly as I know everyone is working on nominations and nom trading, B5:tRH got denied:

https://yuletide-admin.dreamwidth.org/102990.html?thread=2351694#cmt2351694

Disappointing, but they're not wrong. (Though I think JMS had intended it to be able to be experienced by a new viewer who hadn't seen original B5, I think he didn't succeed in that.)

Re: Exchanges - B5:tRH

[selenak]

Alas, yes, I can see their rationale.

Re: Exchanges - B5:tRH

[mildred_of_midgard]

I'm sorry about your fandom :(, and also--we've talked about the teaching of math in Swedish universities, "salon-related" is very broadly defined! :D