Frederick the Great discussion post 9

[cahn]

...I leave you guys alone for one weekend and it's time for a new Fritz post, lol!

I'm gonna reply to the previous post comments but I guess new letter-reading, etc. should go in this one :)

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Re: The Very Secret Travel Correspondance of Prince August Wilhelm

[selenak]

  I live to please! (Though not as much as Algarotti.). Actual first lines from Fritz‘ letters to Algarotti:

My dear swan from Padua, I received your letters with great pleasure; but I admit that I still have ten times more eagerness to see you yourself


My dear swan, you were born, I believe, to see the arrival of great events in your days.

My dear swan from Padua, Voltaire arrived sparkling with new beauties

Oh most fickle and lightest swan in the world!

(The last one is from when Algarotti has hightailed it out of Prussia for the first time because he‘s tired of waiting around for Fritz to conquer Silesia and instead becomes August III.‘s art collector in Dresden. While also designing porcellain figurines for MT‘s table decoration at least once, as I‘ve discovered through the dissertation about him, and hoping she‘ll ask him for more. The best thing is that the writer of the dissertation doesn‘t seem to get the implication, as it‘s all in one line and a footnote about how Esterhazy (one of the top Hungarian nobles) ordered the figurines for „the Queen of Hungary and Bohemia“, and Algarotti hopes there will be more from „the Queen of Hungary and Bohemia“. Whom said author doesn‘t equate with the woman mentioned a few pages earlier as „in 1740, Maria Theresia followed her father“ etc.).

„Principe“ - Mildred got it!

Re: The Very Secret Travel Correspondance of Prince August Wilhelm

[mildred_of_midgard]

I live to please! (Though not as much as Algarotti.)

Probably wise. :)

The best thing is that the writer of the dissertation doesn‘t seem to get the implication

I am delighted that you caught this and pointed it out, because I had missed it.

it's fresh on everyone's minds

Except AW's, naturally!