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We now have a community, rheinsberg, that has quite a lot of the interesting historical content (and more coming regularly), organized nicely with lots of lovely tags so if there's any subject you are interested in it is easy to find :D

Comments

Re: Voltaire and his niece

[selenak]

Nope, see my reply here, which also details the 1950s letters discovery:

https://cahn.dreamwidth.org/166556.html?thread=1767324#cmt1767324

Re: Voltaire and his niece

[cahn]

Ah, thank you! This was the comment I was imperfectly remembering. (somehow I had thought that someone had used them when they were privately owned... but that's clearly not what the comment says.)

Also, you say in that comment, "I'm not sure what it says about Voltaire's taste that his three most long term relationships were a) Émilie (yay!), b) Fritz (um), and c) his niece (well)."

...and... yeah. Quoted for truth :P

Re: Voltaire and his niece

[mildred_of_midgard]

Yeah, this line jumped out at me too. :D "Brother" Voltaire the honorary Hohenzollern indeed.

Re: Voltaire and his niece

[selenak]

Like I said - who else among Fritz' boyfriends is that much like them? I totally understand why he's Wilhelmine's problematic fave.