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: "She cried but she took": according to non-Germans

[mildred_of_midgard]

Carlyle has vast amounts of space (7 volumes! admittedly 6 of them before 1763)

Refreshing myself on this, I observe that it is in fact 6 volumes divided into 21 books, of which 20 books go up to 1763, and book 21 is "everything after that."

That beats Macaulay, at least, who straight up stopped in 1763.