Frederick the Great and His Family

The Seven Years' War: Frederick against Austria, Russia, France and Saxony at once, and the court at Sans Souci going on around him — his brothers, his sister, the actresses, the poets, the flute. Mühlbach was Klara Mundt, who wrote nearly three hundred volumes and put the courts of Europe into them; she is a gossip working from documents, and the family here is far more interesting than the battles.