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: August III: This is how you lose the PR war

[luzula]

Oh, that's interesting! Do you have a sense of whether that was a literal 18th century hobby, or if it was a trope used to insult people?
An Internet search gave me these two examples of women doing papercut art at roughly the right time period! So it seems like it was actually a thing--and it looks like it was taken seriously as an art form, too.

Re: August III: This is how you lose the PR war

[mildred_of_midgard]

Oh, neat!

Those look really nice, let the men make pretty things, people!

(See my new question about Danish archives and your travel plans. :'D)