Depending on whether we count from when I started refreshing myself with Fritz bios before the three of us started chatting (June), or when our magical alchemy began (August)...in June I certainly had forgotten anything I had learned about the Keiths and Algarotti (but because of the bios I know I'd read twenty years ago, I must have learned about them once--all I remember is that there was a Jacobite named Keith, because anything Jacobite related stuck with me), and I doubt I ever knew anything about the names of the dogs, beyond the group name "marquises de Pompadour." By the time we started chatting, though, I had managed to work both Alcmene and Biche into a fic on AO3, so I must have caught up on the dogs quickly. ;)
Before our magical alchemy, though, wow, I was like aware that he had siblings apart from Wilhelmine, and of them, that AW died and Heinrich was a good general, maybe better than Fritz. Extended family? Details on his parents other than the obvious? Nope. Barest outlines of the relationship with Voltaire, and of Fredersdorf (whom, again, I must have learned about 20 years ago, but had to relearn from scratch when I picked up those bios again). Suhm who?
And I actually still believed Katte was executed in front of Fritz's window, and that his last words were "I die for you with joy in my heart," which I STILL haven't found outside Wikipedia.
It's been like a graduate-level history course! It has exceeded my wildest dreams. earthly paradise indeed! <3
Thank you for explaining/reminding! Very useful for rl.
ETA: Just meant to call attention to something in that thread, namely that if you use the term "ring theory" in real life, anyone with a STEM background, like me and cahn, is going to think of algebra, not communication skills.
Re: Mr. and Mrs. King: Fritz - Elisabeth Christine: The Correspondance
Depending on whether we count from when I started refreshing myself with Fritz bios before the three of us started chatting (June), or when our magical alchemy began (August)...in June I certainly had forgotten anything I had learned about the Keiths and Algarotti (but because of the bios I know I'd read twenty years ago, I must have learned about them once--all I remember is that there was a Jacobite named Keith, because anything Jacobite related stuck with me), and I doubt I ever knew anything about the names of the dogs, beyond the group name "marquises de Pompadour." By the time we started chatting, though, I had managed to work both Alcmene and Biche into a fic on AO3, so I must have caught up on the dogs quickly. ;)
Before our magical alchemy, though, wow, I was like aware that he had siblings apart from Wilhelmine, and of them, that AW died and Heinrich was a good general, maybe better than Fritz. Extended family? Details on his parents other than the obvious? Nope. Barest outlines of the relationship with Voltaire, and of Fredersdorf (whom, again, I must have learned about 20 years ago, but had to relearn from scratch when I picked up those bios again). Suhm who?
And I actually still believed Katte was executed in front of Fritz's window, and that his last words were "I die for you with joy in my heart," which I STILL haven't found outside Wikipedia.
It's been like a graduate-level history course! It has exceeded my wildest dreams. earthly paradise indeed! <3
Thank you for explaining/reminding! Very useful for rl.
ETA: Just meant to call attention to something in that thread, namely that if you use the term "ring theory" in real life, anyone with a STEM background, like me and