Thank you for all these quotes. In addition to what Mildred said:
I know it is difficult to get out of here, but there are still hippogriffs to escape from Madame Alcine
That's the Orlando-Furioso (or Händel's opera based on Orlando) referring comparison Voltaire also employs in his memoirs, i.e. Fritz as the bewitching sorceress Alcina.
He made me write by his factotum that there were excellent waters at Glatz, towards Moravia
Glatz is a fortress where Prussian prisoners are locked up. As, for example, Trenck, the first time around.
Re: Lucchessini, Catt and Fredersdorf, oh, my
I know it is difficult to get out of here, but there are still hippogriffs to escape from Madame Alcine
That's the Orlando-Furioso (or Händel's opera based on Orlando) referring comparison Voltaire also employs in his memoirs, i.e. Fritz as the bewitching sorceress Alcina.
He made me write by his factotum that there were excellent waters at Glatz, towards Moravia
Glatz is a fortress where Prussian prisoners are locked up. As, for example, Trenck, the first time around.