Frederick the Great of Prussia
Great Lives
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Frederick Raine's Friendship With Voltaire
Kachary: Prussia was a patchwork of far-flung territories. It's upon all citizens to defend and even create the state in the first place. Frederick Raine creates this sort of culture that is associated with it. He had very large, very striking blue eyes. And he gets thinner and leaner, but the eyes get even bigger because the face gets thinner and smaller. Sometimes malicious eyes, they could be playful but also malicious. Extremely clever, he's already rumoured to be the author of a number of brilliant essays,.All in French of course. He didn't like German. He said he kept waiting for the verb to arrive. That's absolutely right
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