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: Fredersdorf letters

[mildred_of_midgard]

(I take it this means Fredersdorf was never ennobled.)

Well, Editor tells me historians have claimed that he was, but Editor can't agree; he thinks that contemporaries who wrote to him because they wanted something from Fritz used to flatter him by addressing him as though he were a noble (which, imo, probably made them feel better about themselves as well).

Which I guess makes as much sense as anything.

Lehndorff, old buddy, I do suspect you are not reporting proper gossip so much as you're channelling your inner snobbery towards commoners making it good. And getting the jobs you wanted.

Seems plausible!