"What, in fine, did Frederick bequeath to Prussia? Well, he bequeathed his name and fame as a great conqueror. He became in a secular sense the Patron Saint of Germany."

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Lord Rosebery, 'Introduction', in Henri de Catt, Frederick the Great: The Memoirs of His Reader Henri de Catt (1758–1760). Vol. I, translated by F. S. Flint (1916), p. xxxvi