Frederick the Great, discussion post 5: or: Yuletide requests are out!

[cahn]

All Yuletide requests are out!

Yuletide related:
-it is sad that I can't watch opera quickly enough these days to have offered any of them, these requests are delightful!

-That is... sure a lot of prompts for MCS/Jingyan. But happily some that are not :D (I like MCS/Jingyan! But there are So Many Other characters!)

Frederician-specific:
-I am so excited someone requested Fritz/Voltaire, please someone write it!!

-I also really want someone to write that request for Poniatowski, although that is... definitely a niche request, even for this niche fandom. But he has memoirs?? apparently they are translated from Polish into French

-But while we are waiting/writing/etc., check out this crack commentfic where Heinrich and Franz Stefan are drinking together while Maria Theresia and Frederick the Great have their secret summit, which turns into a plot to marry the future Emperor Joseph to Fritz...

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Comments

Re: Fritz chronological maps, or a labor of love

[mildred_of_midgard]

Oh, funny anecdote. *So many* times, the only hits I could get for the 18th century spelling I had were Frederick the Great hits. If I hadn't been having fun, it would have been frustrating. As it was, it was just a really super geeky scavenger hunt. :P

Anyway, on one occasion, almost the entire first page of hits was works by or about Fritz, and the first was Carlyle. The blurb Google showed me reads: "Friedrich now has nothing for it but to try if he cannot possibly get hold of Kunzendorf (readers may look in their Map)."

Yes, if only it were still named that, Carlyle! I laughed pretty hard. It reminded me of a touristy t-shirt I got in Bratislava that read, "Where the fuck is Bratislava?"

Where the fuck is Kunzendorf?

Re: Fritz chronological maps, or a labor of love

[mildred_of_midgard]

So I'm doing the political correspondence, or at least as much as I can before I get bored, and I just wanted to share another experience I had, just now, while tracking down the modern names for places Fritz invaded went.

It started when I couldn't find *any* place names when googling "Pischeli Czech Republic". But I remembered that the last time I couldn't find something, it ended up being in Prague. So I tried "Pischeli Prague", and ended up with an 1865 "Memorial of the Projected Railway from Vienna" that listed a bunch of stops on the various projected lines, using the old German names for villages and towns.

On the line that included "Pischeli", I recognized a bunch of names that I had just found the Czech names for (sweeeet). So I plugged in a few into Google maps, and sure enough, they formed a nice projected train line. Then I looked at the stop immediately before and immediately after Pischeli, zoomed in on the map, and knowing that it was somewhere between Benešov and Říčany, spotted "Pyšely" within a few seconds. Victory!

You have to get creative on this scavenger hunt. :D