I'm still having a quick look at the journal, which is indeed a wild mixture of two thirds French, one third German phrases, and btw also the source for Fritz' "entertaining during dinner, to be locked up after dinner" remark about Pöllnitz. Made to Grumbkow, and told by him to Seckendorff. Just for added confusion, though, it appears the journal writer is NOT, repeat, NOT Seckendorff the old schemer, later to be kidnapped by mobster boss Fritz so he has someone to trade to the Austrians, but a nephew or cousin. (In the page longe conversation with FW in German, he says "mein Onkel", but in French it's either mon oncle or mon cousin. Which fits with (Friedrich Heinrich von) Seckendorff the old schemer's wiki entry reporting him as governor of Mainz and fighting the French in the Polonian war of succession, and then still in the field in the Russian-Austrian-Turkish war from 1736 - 1739, no longer ambassador to Prussia in 1734, and this journal starting thereafter. I mean, even Seckendorff can't be in two places at the same time.
Other Seckendorff, at a guess, might be Christoph Friedrich von Seckendorff-Adebar, but that's just because the birthdates and dying dates make it possible.
Other Seckendorff does, however, use all the familiar code names - Olympia for SD, Biberius for Grumbkow (I know McDonogh says that's Fritz' nickname for him, but the Austrians definitely got their first), Le Diable for Mantteuffel (ditto). Fritz is, I kid you not, "Junior", if he isn't the Crown Prince.
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I'm still having a quick look at the journal, which is indeed a wild mixture of two thirds French, one third German phrases, and btw also the source for Fritz' "entertaining during dinner, to be locked up after dinner" remark about Pöllnitz. Made to Grumbkow, and told by him to Seckendorff. Just for added confusion, though, it appears the journal writer is NOT, repeat, NOT Seckendorff the old schemer, later to be kidnapped by mobster boss Fritz so he has someone to trade to the Austrians, but a nephew or cousin. (In the page longe conversation with FW in German, he says "mein Onkel", but in French it's either mon oncle or mon cousin. Which fits with (Friedrich Heinrich von) Seckendorff the old schemer's wiki entry reporting him as governor of Mainz and fighting the French in the Polonian war of succession, and then still in the field in the Russian-Austrian-Turkish war from 1736 - 1739, no longer ambassador to Prussia in 1734, and this journal starting thereafter. I mean, even Seckendorff can't be in two places at the same time.
Other Seckendorff, at a guess, might be Christoph Friedrich von Seckendorff-Adebar, but that's just because the birthdates and dying dates make it possible.
Other Seckendorff does, however, use all the familiar code names - Olympia for SD, Biberius for Grumbkow (I know McDonogh says that's Fritz' nickname for him, but the Austrians definitely got their first), Le Diable for Mantteuffel (ditto). Fritz is, I kid you not, "Junior", if he isn't the Crown Prince.
More in another comment.