This is one of those write-ups where every line was fascinating.
Should have figured Lavisse wrote after the 1870/1871 Prussian/French War, for example.
I thought I had mentioned that, although maybe I didn't call out the Franco-Prussian war. I definitely had it on my mind when pointing out the year in which he published. His perception of Fritz is, yes, exactly what you'd expect from a Frenchman from that date.
Seriously, the years of Napoleonic dominance and subjugation are Prussia’s atonment for Saxony and for having fallen into decadence again post Fritz; after this trial by fire, Prussia is reborn
Wow.
Prussia is reborn, can lead the effort to beat Napoleon (Wellington is thought of by 19th century German historians like Blücher is thought of by to this day British popular historians, i.e., as an afterthought
Wow.
Hahn says the German translations of said works by Volz et all in the 1880s were severely toned down and censored, both in the blasphemous and the sexual aspects.
Does not surprise me in the slightest (ever since Preuss, I assume everything is censored), but dammit.
Hahn says the Richter edition of the Fredersdorf letters was slightly censored, but he doesn’t say whether he’s basing this on the Burchardt edition (like I said, my quick once over gave me only one letter that I thought was new to me, the one joking about male powers of love being affected by all the wrong medicine), or because he’s read the originals.
The letters are still out there in some archives, right? And they're in German, so you can read them for us. :P Good luck with the handwriting!
Fritz wearing glasses: that was one well-kept secret! If neither you nor I had any idea, this far into our salon. And yes, he'd absolutely have to not let on about it, ever. So either Catt didn't know, or Catt kept the secret better than he kept the suicide box secret. Or I'm forgetting something, but we've both read his memoirs, and I'd think one of us would have caught it.
And that means gambitten was right, that famed memory for faces was him asking--he didn't have a choice. (Nobody ever tells me what my prescription is, for some reason, they just hand me the glasses, but I think one time I got told and it was about the same as yours.)
And that's a good point about the intense gaze.
For fanfiction: Fritz out of public sight needs to wear glasses.
Noted!
His role as a the junior partner of the Czarina remains unmentioned."
Naturally.
Wow, this whole thing was amazing, thank you so much. I wish he were not the kind of author who would include a dramatic episode that's not common knowledge without so much as a citation, but other stuff sounds golden. This belongs in rheinsberg!
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Date: 2020-03-01 03:18 pm (UTC)Should have figured Lavisse wrote after the 1870/1871 Prussian/French War, for example.
I thought I had mentioned that, although maybe I didn't call out the Franco-Prussian war. I definitely had it on my mind when pointing out the year in which he published. His perception of Fritz is, yes, exactly what you'd expect from a Frenchman from that date.
Seriously, the years of Napoleonic dominance and subjugation are Prussia’s atonment for Saxony and for having fallen into decadence again post Fritz; after this trial by fire, Prussia is reborn
Wow.
Prussia is reborn, can lead the effort to beat Napoleon (Wellington is thought of by 19th century German historians like Blücher is thought of by to this day British popular historians, i.e., as an afterthought
Wow.
Hahn says the German translations of said works by Volz et all in the 1880s were severely toned down and censored, both in the blasphemous and the sexual aspects.
Does not surprise me in the slightest (ever since Preuss, I assume everything is censored), but dammit.
Hahn says the Richter edition of the Fredersdorf letters was slightly censored, but he doesn’t say whether he’s basing this on the Burchardt edition (like I said, my quick once over gave me only one letter that I thought was new to me, the one joking about male powers of love being affected by all the wrong medicine), or because he’s read the originals.
The letters are still out there in some archives, right? And they're in German, so you can read them for us. :P Good luck with the handwriting!
Fritz wearing glasses: that was one well-kept secret! If neither you nor I had any idea, this far into our salon. And yes, he'd absolutely have to not let on about it, ever. So either Catt didn't know, or Catt kept the secret better than he kept the suicide box secret. Or I'm forgetting something, but we've both read his memoirs, and I'd think one of us would have caught it.
And that means
And that's a good point about the intense gaze.
For fanfiction: Fritz out of public sight needs to wear glasses.
Noted!
His role as a the junior partner of the Czarina remains unmentioned."
Naturally.
Wow, this whole thing was amazing, thank you so much. I wish he were not the kind of author who would include a dramatic episode that's not common knowledge without so much as a citation, but other stuff sounds golden. This belongs in