Alas yes. I suppose Maria Theresia could have met Amalie instead, via Trenck arranging it?
And speaking of Sisters: however Joseph's meeting with Fritz went down, I bet he (Joseph) preferred it as memory to his visit in Paris where he had to fix his kid sister's marital sex life. The difference between 18th and 19th century conversation about sexuality is never so glaring as when you read Joseph's letters home to Austria from that trip, describing in detail what the Louis/Marie Antoinette problem was: Louis would get a proper erection, but then would just put it in and pull it out again after a few minutes without coming (or moving)). Leading Joseph to comment: "Maybe somebody should whip him, so that he’d ejaculate out of anger, like the donkeys do’."
Re: Joseph: the RATIONAL fanboy
Alas yes. I suppose Maria Theresia could have met Amalie instead, via Trenck arranging it?
And speaking of Sisters: however Joseph's meeting with Fritz went down, I bet he (Joseph) preferred it as memory to his visit in Paris where he had to fix his kid sister's marital sex life. The difference between 18th and 19th century conversation about sexuality is never so glaring as when you read Joseph's letters home to Austria from that trip, describing in detail what the Louis/Marie Antoinette problem was: Louis would get a proper erection, but then would just put it in and pull it out again after a few minutes without coming (or moving)). Leading Joseph to comment: "Maybe somebody should whip him, so that he’d ejaculate out of anger, like the donkeys do’."