Later, his regiment commander's judgment on him: "I can't make heads or tails off Katte; sans reproche - i.e. without fail - he seems to be only on horseback or playing the flute".

This is really cute!

(Also made into a Verdi opera, albeit a far more obscure one than Don Carlos, with all the politics taken out and the action transferred from corrupt present day (to Schiller) Würtemberg to some idyllic Tyrolian village.)

I do know of the opera, though I've not seen it, because the Met did it last year with Domingo as the baritone. All the harassment problems aside (they hadn't yet come out at that point), I'm not really very fond of Domingo as a baritone, so I hadn't checked it out yet.

Just you wait until I publish my memoirs.

I giggled :D