Yuletide tags are out: Frederician version

[cahn]

Come join us in this crazy Frederick the Great fandom and learn more about all these crazy associated people, like the star-crossed and heartbreaking romance between Maria Theresia's daughter Maria Christina and her daughter-in-law Isabella, wow.

OK, so, there are FOURTEEN characters nominated:
Anna Karolina Orzelska (Frederician RPF)
Elisabeth Christine von Preußen | Elisabeth Christine Queen of Prussia (Frederician RPF)
Francesco Algarotti (Frederician RPF)
François-Marie Arouet | Voltaire (Frederician RPF)
Friedrich II von Preußen | Frederick the Great (Frederician RPF)
Hans Hermann Von Katte (Frederician RPF)
Joseph II Holy Roman Emperor (Frederician RPF)
Maria Theresia | Maria Theresa of Austria (Frederician RPF)
Michael Gabriel Fredersdorf (Frederician RPF)
Peter Karl Christoph von Keith (Frederician RPF)
Sophia Dorothea of Hanover (Frederician RPF)
Stanisław August Poniatowski (Frederician RPF)
Wilhelmine von Preußen | Wilhelmine of Prussia (1709-1758) (Frederician RPF)
Yekatarina II Alekseyevna | Catherine the Great of Russia (Frederician RPF)

This means some fourth person kindly nominated Algarotti and -- I think? -- Stanislaw August Poniatowski! YAY! Thank you fourth person! Come be our friend! :D Yuletide is so great!

I am definitely requesting Maria Theresia, Wilhelmine, and Fritz (Put them in a room together. Shake. How big is the explosion?), and thinking about Elisabeth Christine, but maybe not this year.

I am also declaring this post another Frederician post, as the last one was getting out of hand. I think I'll still use that one as the overall index to these, though, to keep all the links in one place.

(seriously, every time I think the wild stories are done there is ANOTHER one)

Comments

Re: Maria Theresia Trivia

[selenak]

I keep hearing about Rose of Versailles, though I've never watched it. Googling tells me Dubarry is presented as a villain, though? That's somewhat unfair. Once she's made it to the top, she was generous and used her influence to persuade the King for mercy a lot. (Unlike Pompadour, though, she was not interested in politics and not able to create a party for herself, either; she just listend to bad luck stories.) She didn't have a beef with young MA beyond wanting that open acknowledgment, either, and "funny little carrot" is hardly a vicious nickname. (Especially if you consider Dubarry really came from the streets and had to work in a brothel as a young teen before finding a sponsor willing to get her out of there; I'm sure she could have found far worse things to say if she'd wanted to.)

Re: Maria Theresia Trivia

[zdenka]

It's been years since I watched the anime/read the manga, but IIRC, Dubarry wasn't presented as a villain -- at most an antagonist in that arc. The way you described it didn't contradict my impression/recollection of it.

Anyway, I don't expect historical accuracy from anime, and I was surprised it was that historically-based!