As to the memoirs, they're translated from French into Polish.
Frederick: And now the king of Poland has died like a fool! I do not like these people who do everything at the wrong time. Ghost of August III: >:(
In 1769, Friedrich began a work, Le Chant de Confédérés, on the Confederation of Bar in P-L. He depicts the Bishop of Kiev as a crazed bigot with a library whihc has no books, only relics and a painting depicting the St. Bartholemew's Day massacre in France. The Bishop of Kiev was Józef Andrzej Załuski, who was co-founder of the first public library in the Commonwealth and one of the first public libraries in Europe in general.
Władysław Konopczyński wrote a whole book (though not a long one) about Fritz and Poland. He mentions a work from 1779, L’ Orangoutang de l'Europe, alleging the Poles were descended from orangutans (not a general human evolution argument; it was not applied to other nations) and says that it was ascribed by contemporary opinion to Frederick's authorship. Later though, an officer expelled from the Corps de Cadets in Warsaw for theft, a man named Kermorwand, has been blamed. Apparently it was based on a lecture given at the Berlin Academy the decade before - by a Polish woman.
Frederick and Poland
Frederick: And now the king of Poland has died like a fool! I do not like these people who do everything at the wrong time.
Ghost of August III: >:(
In 1769, Friedrich began a work, Le Chant de Confédérés, on the Confederation of Bar in P-L. He depicts the Bishop of Kiev as a crazed bigot with a library whihc has no books, only relics and a painting depicting the St. Bartholemew's Day massacre in France. The Bishop of Kiev was Józef Andrzej Załuski, who was co-founder of the first public library in the Commonwealth and one of the first public libraries in Europe in general.
Władysław Konopczyński wrote a whole book (though not a long one) about Fritz and Poland. He mentions a work from 1779, L’ Orangoutang de l'Europe, alleging the Poles were descended from orangutans (not a general human evolution argument; it was not applied to other nations) and says that it was ascribed by contemporary opinion to Frederick's authorship. Later though, an officer expelled from the Corps de Cadets in Warsaw for theft, a man named Kermorwand, has been blamed. Apparently it was based on a lecture given at the Berlin Academy the decade before - by a Polish woman.