Just hit the Küstrin episode (where the kids are lined up by Mom and beaten by Dad). In the immediately preceding paragraphs, Catt is listening to stories around camp. This general says this, that baron says that. Fritz left yesterday, when Heinrich arrived, if I'm not mistaken.
Yeeeeaaaahhh, I'm gonna go with Fritz never talked about Katte to Catt or Voltaire. And now I'm really leaning toward Catt reading Voltaire's memoirs (he must have! regardless of whether he borrowed from them), and expanding and correcting the Katte passage a little, and putting it in Fritz's mouth. Since we now know, thanks to our wonderful reader's summary of the Catt preface, that Catt pulled from multiple sources and had no shame about putting things in Fritz's mouth.
Which means now we're down to one 1737 letter, where Fritz has complaints about Katte, as his sole communication that we've turned up so far.
40 more pages of Catt to go, plus some passages from the first 60 that I didn't really read, but I'm not expecting any surprise Katte confidences at this point.
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Re: Henri de Catt
Date: 2020-02-02 08:47 pm (UTC)Yeeeeaaaahhh, I'm gonna go with Fritz never talked about Katte to Catt or Voltaire. And now I'm really leaning toward Catt reading Voltaire's memoirs (he must have! regardless of whether he borrowed from them), and expanding and correcting the Katte passage a little, and putting it in Fritz's mouth. Since we now know, thanks to our wonderful reader's summary of the Catt preface, that Catt pulled from multiple sources and had no shame about putting things in Fritz's mouth.
Which means now we're down to one 1737 letter, where Fritz has complaints about Katte, as his sole communication that we've turned up so far.
40 more pages of Catt to go, plus some passages from the first 60 that I didn't really read, but I'm not expecting any surprise Katte confidences at this point.
What a downer.