Fritz also at a point when France is at war with England and he makes an alliance with England finds time to write satiric porn involving the French ambassador.
In Fritz's defense (of the timing if not of the content of the poem), the poem itself was composed several years earlier, in 1748-1749, when he had more time. Also, per Preuss, it was heavily influenced by and imitated Voltaire's infamous Pucelle, which Fritz didn't have in complete manuscript form yet, but he had gotten excerpts of beginning in 1742.
Preuss points out that the first line of Pucelle is
Re: Fritz and Wilhelmine Correspondance, Trier Version IV - More Things Between Heaven and Earth...
In Fritz's defense (of the timing if not of the content of the poem), the poem itself was composed several years earlier, in 1748-1749, when he had more time. Also, per Preuss, it was heavily influenced by and imitated Voltaire's infamous Pucelle, which Fritz didn't have in complete manuscript form yet, but he had gotten excerpts of beginning in 1742.
Preuss points out that the first line of Pucelle is
Je ne suis né pour célébrer les saints,
and the first line of Palladion is
Je ne suis né pour chanter des héros.
Sincerest form of flattery, Fritz?