Happy Fritzmas! (*) / Frederician discussion post 7

[cahn]

Frederician fandom is the best! 3 stories in main archive and 2 stories in Madness, eeeeeeee and I have only managed to read my own gifts so far (well, I guess Madness isn't open yet either, but even if it had been I wouldn't have managed to have read them) but they are so goooooood

Also, I would like to apologize on behalf of the fandom that none of us apparently managed any Fritz/Voltaire. Some of us, uh, didn't know enough about Voltaire, and we are Taking Steps to attempt to rectify this in the future if anyone requests it, say, next year. Just saying.

I'm making this post because the last one has an insane number of comments, but I still owe SO many comments on the last post and I kiiiinda would like to read and comment on Yuletide stories for the next week as time permits so I almost hope this post doesn't get much action and then we resume in the new year? (Especially since there is a limited amount of discussion we can do on the fics right now!) :D I was thinking of making another post anyway for reveals.

(*) My husband D came up with this :P :)

Comments

Re: Marriage

[selenak]

I suspect some managing of Fritz here.

I suspect you're right, though Fritz himself was an eager marriage arranger if it was a) for political benefits to Prussia/himself, b) as a psychological power play with his younger brother, or c) to enrich the Katte family.

If Seydlitz didn't fall into any of those categories, "I'm gonna need a nurse who is not a servant" is as good an excuse as any, and I'm pretty sure Fredersdorf followed the same policy. (Incidentally, for all that Lehndorff snips about Mrs. Fredersdorf getting engaged/married repeatedly according to gossip, in actual fact her remarriage didn't stop her from attending to her first husband's memory. Since she was the one with the money (being a banker's daughter) and husband no.2 (also a chamberlain of Fritz') was the one getting enobled, pretty much the sole reason why she should have cared about the burial place, making donatations and charities in his name etc. for future decades would be because she was fond of goold old Fredersdorf. Doesn't mean they need to have been romantically in love, but it argues for at least some friendly affection.)

Re: Marriage

[mildred_of_midgard]

I think the key with Fritz is that you're supposed to get married because you *have* to (e.g. he makes you), never because you *want* to. (No projection of personal traumas there, no sirree.) So if you're getting married and nobody's making you, you'd better have a reason.

Agree: re Mrs. Fredersdorf, and I'm glad Fredersdorf had some friendly affection in his last days.