Frederick the Great and His Court

Berlin, 1740: the old king dies, and the son he beat, imprisoned and forced to watch his friend beheaded takes the throne - and within months has invaded Silesia. Muhlbach was Klara Mundt, who wrote nearly three hundred volumes and poured the courts of Europe into them; she is a gossip with archives, and her Frederick - flute, French verses, cold contempt - is the one the nineteenth century believ...