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: Voltaire: Dying, Dead, Immortal (though not buried)

[mildred_of_midgard]

That was brilliant and I knew none of that. All I knew was that the story of Voltaire being urged to renounce Satan and all his works on his deathbed and quipping, "Now is not the time to be making new enemies!" is apocryphal. IIRC, a 20th century invention.

But this was even more worthy of Voltaire's penchant for drama. Thank you for the glorious write-up!

It's funny timing too, because just 24 hours ago, I was recounting the 205-year adventure of Fritz's mortal remains to our royal patron. :) (Let us know if you need a refresher, cahn.)

if I have ever given the Church reason for anger, I ask it and God for forgiveness.

Lol, classic notpology. "I'm sorry if you were offended."

Also, if I'm remembering correctly, Fritz had a mass said for Voltaire's soul, purely to troll the Church, but he refused a suggestion to set up Voltaire's bust in St. Hedwig's, the Catholic Church Fritz had commissioned long ago and had only recently been finished.