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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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