http://www.steelypips.org/weblog/2006/04/obrian_07spoilers.php Comments on O'Brian, Patrick: (07) The Surgeon's Mate (spoilers) en Copyright 2008 Tue, 05 Aug 2008 21:07:46 -0500 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.36 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sherwood Smith wrote on April 17, 2006 at 12:25 PM: <p>Talleyrand was amazing. He really is the force behind the reshaping of Europe. It is even more astonishing that there are no really good biographies of him...he doesn't fit neatly into any mold, and tends to be overlooked.</p> <p>I wish I could get my french up to speed so I could read his memoirs, which haven't even been translated.</p> http://www.steelypips.org/weblog/2006/04/obrian_07spoilers.php#c4324 Kate wrote on April 17, 2006 at 12:47 PM: <p>I know him from another historical novel, Katherine Neville's _The Eight_ (which I suspect, in retrospect, of not being very historically accurate--fun, though), and from a chess set (in some story or another) where he was a piece on both sides. =></p> <p>(What I really want is a O'Brian companion that points out everything that's historical and everything that diverges from history, but that would be, err, lengthy.)</p> http://www.steelypips.org/weblog/2006/04/obrian_07spoilers.php#c4325