I‘m not exactly bursting with confidence in his statements.
Lol, unreliable editor is unreliable. I'd forgotten you had the audio version, that's right. Well, I've sent cahn a bilingual copy of all the Fritz-Wilhelmine correspondence that's up on Trier, so she can let us know. I did search for his name, but didn't see it, *but* there are so many spellings of his name, plus he may have said "my chamberlain" or something allusive.
By the way, I must brag. For those of us whose French isn't up to hundreds of pages, I wrote a script that, if you give it the volume and page numbers you want, will download the correspondence from the Trier website and create a file where all the letters are interleaved in French and Google translated English. It ends up looking like this: ------------------------------ 1. A LA PRINCESSE WILHELMINE. Cüstrin, 1 novembre 1730.
Ma très-chère sœur, [Original French letter.] Le Prisonnier.
Translation: My dearest sister, [Google translate does the best it can.] The prisoner. ------------------------------ 2. A LA MARGRAVE DE BAIREUTH. Berlin, 6 mars 1732.
Ma très-chère sœur, [Original French letter.] Ma très-chère sœur, Votre très-humble et très-fidèle Frideric.
Translation: My dearest sister, [Google translate does the best it can.] My dearest sister, Your very humble and very faithful Frideric.
I have a $300 12-month free trial, so am taking requests if anyone wants a particular correspondent or correspondents.
The difference being that Mrs. Schiller was a born Charlotte von Lengenfeld and a legitimate wife, while Christiane was living in openly unmarried love with Goethe and a born Demoiselle Vulpius, former flower manufacturer worker.
Huh. So you're saying Fritz can cry openly over his family, his generals, Keyserlingk, Rothenburg, Jordan, Duhan, and the like, and his dogs, but not Fredersdorf, because he's not supposed to care that much about a commoner?
(Then again, Wilhelmine has no problem bringing up Quantz or singer X or musician Y or Algarotti or the dogs in her letters, both to ask after or to report news on.)
It occurs to me, if Fritz doesn't actually mention Fredersdorf to Wilhelmine, maybe it's another Keith & Katte situation where she doesn't approve of her brother's boyfriends taking his attention away from her? I mean, misogyny and classicism aside, we know how Fritz felt about Émilie and Voltaire about Fredersdorf, and we know Wilhelmine and Fritz might be the scandal that never happened, so...
I‘ve had a chance to browse through some of Catt‘s memoirs since you‘ve made it possible for me to
I'm glad sharing the folder with you has been useful to you! I will keep uploading my acquisitions there, and if there's something you want but can't access, let me know and I'll see what I can do.
Responded to your Catt remarks in another comment, but yes, there is a lot of revisionism, by both Catt and Fritz.
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Lol, unreliable editor is unreliable. I'd forgotten you had the audio version, that's right. Well, I've sent
By the way, I must brag. For those of us whose French isn't up to hundreds of pages, I wrote a script that, if you give it the volume and page numbers you want, will download the correspondence from the Trier website and create a file where all the letters are interleaved in French and Google translated English. It ends up looking like this:
------------------------------
1. A LA PRINCESSE WILHELMINE.
Cüstrin, 1 novembre 1730.
Ma très-chère sœur,
[Original French letter.]
Le Prisonnier.
Translation:
My dearest sister,
[Google translate does the best it can.]
The prisoner.
------------------------------
2. A LA MARGRAVE DE BAIREUTH.
Berlin, 6 mars 1732.
Ma très-chère sœur,
[Original French letter.]
Ma très-chère sœur,
Votre très-humble et très-fidèle
Frideric.
Translation:
My dearest sister,
[Google translate does the best it can.]
My dearest sister,
Your very humble and very faithful
Frideric.
I have a $300 12-month free trial, so am taking requests if anyone wants a particular correspondent or correspondents.
The difference being that Mrs. Schiller was a born Charlotte von Lengenfeld and a legitimate wife, while Christiane was living in openly unmarried love with Goethe and a born Demoiselle Vulpius, former flower manufacturer worker.
Huh. So you're saying Fritz can cry openly over his family, his generals, Keyserlingk, Rothenburg, Jordan, Duhan, and the like, and his dogs, but not Fredersdorf, because he's not supposed to care that much about a commoner?
(Then again, Wilhelmine has no problem bringing up Quantz or singer X or musician Y or Algarotti or the dogs in her letters, both to ask after or to report news on.)
It occurs to me, if Fritz doesn't actually mention Fredersdorf to Wilhelmine, maybe it's another Keith & Katte situation where she doesn't approve of her brother's boyfriends taking his attention away from her? I mean, misogyny and classicism aside, we know how Fritz felt about Émilie and Voltaire about Fredersdorf, and we know Wilhelmine and Fritz might be the scandal that never happened, so...
I‘ve had a chance to browse through some of Catt‘s memoirs since you‘ve made it possible for me to
I'm glad sharing the folder with you has been useful to you! I will keep uploading my acquisitions there, and if there's something you want but can't access, let me know and I'll see what I can do.
Responded to your Catt remarks in another comment, but yes, there is a lot of revisionism, by both Catt and Fritz.