Berlin and Sans-Souci: or, Frederick the Great and His Friends
Aug 2026 · Aeneas Press
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Frederick at home: Voltaire arriving, Voltaire quarreling, Voltaire leaving; the flute, the greyhounds, the Berlin theater, the brothers who cannot please him, and the ministers who dare not contradict. Mühlbach was Klara Mundt, who wrote nearly three hundred volumes; here the wars are offstage and the court is the whole subject, which suits her exactly — she is a gossip with archives. Fifty-six plates, from Menzel's eighteenth-century court to Munch's northern light, trace the same theatre of power and its aftermath that Mühlbach stages at Sans-Souci.
Frederick at home: Voltaire arriving, Voltaire quarreling, Voltaire leaving; the flute, the greyhounds, the Berlin theater, the brothers who cannot please him, and the ministers who dare not contradict. Mühlbach was Klara Mundt, who wrote nearly three hundred volumes; here the wars are offstage a...
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Luise Mühlbach (1814–1873) was the pen name of German author Clara Mundt. She wrote historical novels centered on European royalty and political figures, among them Joseph II and His Court, The Daughter of an Empress, and Henry VIII and His Court.
Luise Mühlbach (1814–1873) was the pen name of German author Clara Mundt. She wrote historical novels centered on European royalty and political figures, among them Joseph II and His Court, The Daughter of an Empress, and Henry VIII and His Court.
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