Announcing Rheinsberg: Frederick the Great discussion post 10

[cahn]

So for anyone who is reading this and would like to learn more about Frederick the Great and his contemporaries, but who doesn't want to wade through 500k (600k?) words worth of comments and an increasingly sprawling comment section:

We now have a community, rheinsberg, that has quite a lot of the interesting historical content (and more coming regularly), organized nicely with lots of lovely tags so if there's any subject you are interested in it is easy to find :D

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Re: MacDonogh Reread III

[mildred_of_midgard]

So he did meet EC after all? Probably not, though, I guess he never used that right.

I haven't seen any claims that he did, so yeah. Maybe Voltaire was just trying to sound good when writing home but never exercised the right. MacDonogh also claims that during the 1743 spying episode, Voltaire wrote back to his paymasters that he spent 4 hours a day closeted with the King! to get around the fact that Fritz adamantly refused to discuss anything of political or military significance.

I doubt it, since one of the conditions of Fritz' peace treaty post 7 Years War was for him to vote for Joseph as next Holy Roman Emperor.

You know, I figured that if something as major as Prussia getting kicked out of the HRE was real, I should have heard about it *somewhere* else, but I thought I'd ask you, since there's always the fact that my knowledge is very selective. Since neither of us has heard of this, well, as they say...pics or it didn't happen.

*Wow* is this like reading Wikipedia.

Whereupon the trusty old official flees in horror and tells Fritz she's hopeless.

That is totally hilarious. Like these examples, headcanon until we're told otherwise! (Go Elisabeth.)