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03489aam a22004811i 4500 001 772C102CE02711E98EBD524297128E48 003 SILO 005 20190926010610 008 731004r19421941ctua b 001 0 eng 010 $a a42002150 035 $a (OCoLC)797109924 040 $a DLC $b eng $c DLC $d DRB $d BDP $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d OCL $d OCLCQ $d OCL $d OCLCQ $d GOC $d SNC $d J9U $d WVF $d OCLCQ $d TXI $d SILO 042 $a premarc 043 $a e-gx--- 050 00 $a DD404 $b .G32 1942 055 4 $a DD404 G39 1942e 082 14 $a 943.05 $b F91RgBb 100 1 $a Gaxotte, Pierre. 245 10 $a Frederick the Great / $c by Pierre Gaxotte ; translated by R.A. Bell. 260 $a New Haven : $b Yale University Press, $c 1942, ©1941. 300 $a ix, 420 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 25 cm 500 $a "Published on the foundation established in memory of Philip Hamilton McMillan of the class of 1894, Yale college." 504 $a Includes bibliographical notes (pages [397]-410), and index. 505 00 $t Old Fritz. $t The deserter -- $t The year of apprenticeship -- $t The Republic of Rheinsberg -- $t The triumph of will power -- $t The call of war and glory -- $t The two wars of Silesia -- $t Sans Souci -- $t Fredericus Rex -- $t Riding the whirlwind -- $t Frederick the higgler and Frederick the conquerer -- $t Old Fritz. 520 $a In this volume, French author Pierre Gaxotte offers a straightforward biography of the eighteenth-century Prussian ruler known as Frederick the Great. Now translated into English, it is satisfactorily detailed and written for the modern reader. Frederick's twenty-eight years as crown prince are examined, while military affairs are treated briefly, though not uninterestingly. Frederick is chiefly presented as a man, a philosopher, a man of letters, a bon vivant whose complex and contradictory personality perhaps unavoidably led to the strangeness of his Prussian court. Frederick surrounded himself with an extraordinary group of people--French free-thinkers, liberal philosophers, and Encyclopedists--influential voices in literary and artistic culture, which lead to intrigues and gossip, all while his devotion to the tasks which he was convinced he was called upon to fulfill was total. The author refrains from whitewashing the Prussian autocrat, instead allowing his subject to speak for himself, with the result that many of the pungent, caustic sayings of Frederick are now available for the first time in English. 600 00 $a Frederick $b II, $c King of Prussia, $d 1712-1786. 600 00 $a Frederick $b II, $c King of Prussia, $d 1712-1786 $x Influence. 600 07 $a Frederick $b II, $c King of Prussia, $d 1712-1786. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00054639 600 07 $a Frederick William $b I, $c King of Prussia, $d 1688-1740. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00018273 650 0 $a Enlightenment $z Prussia. $z Prussia. 650 0 $a Social change $z Prussia $z Prussia $x History $y 18th century. 651 0 $a Prussia (Germany) $x Kings and rulers $v Biography. 651 0 $a Prussia (Germany) $x Intellectual life $y 18th century. 651 0 $a Prussia (Germany) $x History $y Frederick II, 1740-1786. 651 7 $a Germany $z Prussia. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01225278 648 7 $a 1740-1786 $2 fast 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 700 1 $a Bell, R. A., $e translator. 710 2 $a Philip Hamilton McMillan Memorial Publication Fund. 941 $a 1 952 $l ULAX314 $d 20190926094712.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=772C102CE02711E98EBD524297128E48 994 $a 92 $b IOLInitiate Another SILO Locator Search