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

[mildred_of_midgard]

Aha. Yeah, I didn't want you to spend too much time looking for something that wasn't there. (It's a good thing RP and I ended up doing this by Zoom, because the timing accidentally worked out, as he was originally supposed to look for the quote on his own using the clues I'd given him, and it would have been much harder for him to figure out that he wasn't doing it wrong, it wasn't actually there!)

So interestingly, this book *would* not have been an early example of the quote in German, as I'd originally thought, though it is still a (very) early example in French and English historiography.