Aaahhh, thank you for the 1960s German history rundown. Everything I know about the 1960s comes from one US history course in junior year of high school. ;)
When your role model is, among so many other things, a famous wit who doesn't care whose feelings he hurts, and you think he's the coolest....
Yup. And yeah, we've seen people complaining about this trait of Fritz's since at least the 1730s, maybe the 1720s.
So do we think she did read Voltaire's trashy tell all in her spare time
Well, the memoirs weren't published until 1784 (cahn, MT died in 1780), so if she was reading anything, it was that anonymous 1752 pamphlet. But I don't believe the laundry line is in the memoirs, and it's probably not in the pamphlet. For reasons of anonymity if nothing else. Since my source says Voltaire was bruiting it about Potsdam at the time, I'm betting on an envoy or spy.
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Re: Messages from the Empress
Date: 2020-02-27 05:13 pm (UTC)When your role model is, among so many other things, a famous wit who doesn't care whose feelings he hurts, and you think he's the coolest....
Yup. And yeah, we've seen people complaining about this trait of Fritz's since at least the 1730s, maybe the 1720s.
So do we think she did read Voltaire's trashy tell all in her spare time
Well, the memoirs weren't published until 1784 (