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Frederick the Great of Prussia

You're Dead to Me

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The French Fire Coma - Is That What You Said?

Frederic was, for at least the first six years of his life, uh, left in the care of a governess. She sounds like the father in fain alexandra that, you know, the bagman movie,. sort of rather brutal, pious and screwed up individual. But he was also extremely close with his mother, sophia, date tea, and also his sister, villena, who ends up becoming a, uh ah, a princess in biot, in what's now bavaria. With both of these he actually spoke french exclusively. This is kind of a problem, because his father thinks that everything that is french is debauched. And so

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