Frederick the Great, discussion post 6

[cahn]

...I think we need another one (seriously, you guys, this is THE BEST) and I'd better make it now before I disappear into the wilds of music performance.

(also, as of this week there are two Frederician fics in the yuletide archive and eeeeeeeeeee)
(huh, only one of them is actually tagged with Frederick the Great even though two with Maria Theresia and Wilhelmine, eeeeeee this is awesome I CAN'T WAIT)

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Re: The Keiths

[mildred_of_midgard]

Like Keith and Fritz

This should read, "Like Katte and Fritz." And I meant to add that it's very plausible that Fritz at that age was drawn to people who didn't want to be in the army. So at age 30, his primary memory of Peter might be of someone like Katte, who didn't want to be an officer.

I also meant to include Lehndorff's quote about Keith being "almost completely forgotten" in the beginning. That must have been exactly how it felt, sitting in Berlin without even being summoned to see Fritz. It must have hurt. But that's also how Algarotti and company felt, and it's not because adult Fritz disapproved of their actions as teenagers.

which is likely reflects what Lehndorff's report that Fritz invited Peter to camp in 1753

Well, I apparently conflated two syntactical possibilities for that sentence, wow. And now I can't edit any more. You know what I mean. :P