Yeah, I wish Fritz had been more supportive of Fredersdorf's decision to get married, but I guess when you were forced into a loveless marriage and then your boyfriend leaves you, at least partly, for a happy marriage, being rational and mature about said marriage may not be your knee-jerk reaction. Even beyond your normal resentful attitude toward other people's marriages.

Also, if it was 1753, what else happened that year? Well, the big Voltaire implosion, and Algarotti scuttling away to Italy never to return. Once again, I feel like Fritz's mood and interpersonal relationships are having a chicken-egg effect here.