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: Exchanges

[mildred_of_midgard]

The particular highlights should really be collected for Rheinsberg so that if someone asks me again whether that book is any good, I can point them to something more easily to navigate.

I have added "how we collectively made mince meat of 'In the Shadow of the Empress' by Nancy Goldstone" as a Trello card to my to-do list for Rheinsberg, which means it might actually get done someday. That list keeps getting longer as Darth Real Life goes on, though. :( (Darth Real Life might finally be under control as of today, though we'll see.) But hey, I can take FS off it now! Go Selena.

Lehndorff: He stole the idea from me! Only I did it much better and with more emotion instead of flattery when I had the Olympian Gods send a message to Heinrich to join them for his 30th birthday in my apartment and painted my wallpaper with phosphor messages in his honor! Bloody Cape Stallion!

Hahahahaaa! I laughed. :D