Book 1988
Frederick the Great
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- Publisher
- Hamish Hamilton Ltd
- Published
- 1988
Frederick the Great was born on 24 January 1712, the year of Denain, Louis XIV's final and victorious battle in the War of the Spanish Succession; when he died, seventy-four years later, people were discussing Marie Antoinette's diamond necklace.