Berlin is a cosmopolitan city: one in five Berliners is a French Huguenot refugee, followed by Protestants from Salzburg, Waldensians, Mennonites, Scottish Presbyterians, Jews, Catholics, and openly agnostics. Freedom and the presence of so many foreigners have caused a prodigious cultural explosion. There is also a boom in publications in German, although the sovereign himself claims to detest German, preferring to write in French and using his native tongue only to address his horse.
