Frederick the Great discussion post 12

[cahn]

Every time I am amazed and enchanted that this is still going on! Truly DW is the Earthly Paradise!

All the good stuff continues to be archived at rheinsberg :)

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Re: Volz

[mildred_of_midgard]

Fritz: Always will be. I'm a calm and generous mind

Oh, Fritz. Never stop making me laugh.

it looks like she's another case of Thiébault and Trenck where some editor cuts out passages of later editions. If so: why the Fritz encounter`?! That's a great story!

Good news: I can get a 2-volume German translation that has the encounter into the library, I'll just need our royal patron's help.

French Visitor: Phew. Now I can admire her without rooting for a husband murderess.

Fritz: I don't think you've gotten my point, which is that I'm cooler than Catherine.

Hahahaha. *pats Fritz on the head*

Prussia/Russia was supposed to be exclusive, dammit!

I guess she didn't get the "Der einzige" memo. :P

This is such a great encounter. Who's the French visitor and what's Volz's source?

Re: Volz

[selenak]

The visitor was the Comte Louis Philippe de Ségur, and the excerpt originally hails from "Memoires ou 8ouvenirs et Anecdotes", Vol. 2. S. 126 ff. (Paris 1827).(Volz is good with his footnotes.) Ségur was a French diplomat and writer, on his way to become the French envoy at Catherine's court and making a stop in Berlin to meet Europe's most famous fan of French literature.

Re: Volz

[mildred_of_midgard]

Oh, Ségur's memoirs! I feel like I see them get cited a lot, possibly for Catherine material.

Volz is good with his footnotes.

Go Volz! Volz was a good find.