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mildred_of_midgard ([personal profile] mildred_of_midgard) wrote in [personal profile] cahn 2024-07-24 04:38 pm (UTC)

We didn't start the fire, 18th century version

Selena, I'm super mad at you, because I had plans for this morning, plans that were not this. :PPP

Elusive St Germain
George the 3rd has gone insane
Philosophes
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Duke of Marlborough
Voltaire, Defoe, Declaration
Mercantilism, guillotine
Enlightened absolutism
Balance of power

We did not start the fire
It was always burning as the world was turning
We did not start the fire
No, we did not light it, but we tried to fight it

Adam Smith, pamphlet
Antoinette without a head
More and more things to read
Voila! Encyclopédie
Victory with Washington
Richelieu, but not that one
Rococo, phlogiston
Gulliver and Life of Johnson

We did not start the fire
It was always burning as the world was turning
We did not start the fire
No, we did not light it, but we tried to fight it

Lady Mary, Culloden
Charles the 12th and Potemkin
Colonies, slave trade
Émilie du Châtelet
Johnson, lexicon
Joseph, August the Strong
Personal union
Diplomatic Revolution

Hussars horseback
Johann Sebastian Bach
Winkelmann, Gluck, and Kant
Silesia, Prestonpans
Grand Tour, Mozart
Oglethorpe, Petersburg
Louverture, Pompadour
Battle of Malplaquet!

We did not start the fire
It was always burning as the world was turning
We did not start the fire
No, we did not light it, but we tried to fight it

Sans Souci, Romanovs
Alchemy, Menschikov
Kaufmann, Benedict
Spanish Bourbons, Frederick
Leopold, Valley Forge
Time for some inoculation
Treatise by Montesquieu
Again a Russian palace coup

Edinburgh, Vienna
Stanislaus and Crimea
Bastille stronghold
Tsarevitch ain't growing old
Potsdam, Petersburg
Chesma: Turks and ships burn
Watch out, memoirs lie
Versailles, the Sun King dies!

We did not start the fire
It was always burning as the world was turning
We did not start the fire
No, we did not light it, but we tried to fight it

Catherine, Robespierre
French is spoken everywhere
Dnieper, Peter
Polish partitions
Maria Theresia
Struensee, Philadelphia
Muskets, Russians
Recruiting tall Prussians
Satirists, famous wits
Treaty of Passarowitz
Black plague, go away
What else do I dare to say?

We did not start the fire
It was always burning as the world was turning
We did not start the fire
No, we did not light it, but we tried to fight it

Here he comes: Bonaparte
Hapless Damiens torn apart
Hochkirch, Yorktown
World turned upside down
Bleeding counts as medicine
Orlovs oust a sovereign
The last of the Medici
British navy on the sea

Changing sides in Savoy
Cumberland and Fontenoy
Minden, Dresden
Habsburgs, cameralists
Everywhere we see reforms
Once-great Poland is no more
Curse all these succession wars
I can't take it anymore!

We did not start the fire
It was always burning as the world was turning
We did not start the fire
But when we are gone, it shall still burn on and on and on

We did not start the fire
It was always burning as the world was turning
We did not start the fire
No we did not light it, but we tried to fight it


It needs work, but I need to stop for now. Suggestions welcome!

And yes, I have ideas for a Frederician one, but again, I have OTHER THINGS TO DO. :PPP

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