That said, "manes of those whose favour he courted" doesn't necessarily have to mean AW: if Prades was guilty in Fritz's mind of treason, it could just as easily mean his long-dead paymasters.
True. Louis XVI, the Duc de Choisieul, Madame de Pompadour, or the Brühls - no matter whom worked for, they are all dead by 1783. (MT, too, though not Kaunitz, but presumably Prades would have been spying for the French (home team) or the Saxons (physical proximity + money by the Brühl clan), not the Austrians.
One of the books which I actually own has the wedding anniversary painting, though in black and white. You can tell, even within the formality such a pointing would have under the best of circumstances, that neither EC nor Fritz posed for it, least of all together.
Well, all the biographers I've read said she merely tolerated him as Crown Prince and wasn't that impressed, but maybe that changed after he became Frederick the Great instead of Frederick the Disgraced Prince With Whom It Is Dangerous To Socialize (see also Doris Ritter)?
Oh, I was just guessing as to why Ludwig Wreech (and his brother, also working for Heinrich) had it in for Fritz. It might not have had to do anything with his love poetry for their mother! German wiki thinks she was merely polite and not that impressed while it happened, too, and links the 19th century Allgemeine Deutsche Biography, which says there were no further relatons between her and Fritz post Küstrin until 1758, mid 7 Years War, when he saw the estate of Tamsel again after the battle of Zorndorf, on August 30th. The Russians had plundered the estate, burned some of it and had killed some people, including the teacher of the younger Wreechs, Fahndorff. Fritz still had to make his headquarters there and wrote a letter to Frau v. Wreech, apologizing and promising to pay for all the damage. She took him at his word and wrote back asking for more money for the farmers in the area, too, repeatedly, which he couldn't give, being short of money. She died in 1784, when this volume of diaries end. So for all I know, Ludwig W. might have been Fritz hostile because he blamed him for the war, not because he blamed him for his poetry.
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Re: The Lehndorff Report: 1783
Date: 2020-03-21 07:15 pm (UTC)Yes, the Stabi has it. In print, as it's new.
That said, "manes of those whose favour he courted" doesn't necessarily have to mean AW: if Prades was guilty in Fritz's mind of treason, it could just as easily mean his long-dead paymasters.
True. Louis XVI, the Duc de Choisieul, Madame de Pompadour, or the Brühls - no matter whom worked for, they are all dead by 1783. (MT, too, though not Kaunitz, but presumably Prades would have been spying for the French (home team) or the Saxons (physical proximity + money by the Brühl clan), not the Austrians.
One of the books which I actually own has the wedding anniversary painting, though in black and white. You can tell, even within the formality such a pointing would have under the best of circumstances, that neither EC nor Fritz posed for it, least of all together.
Well, all the biographers I've read said she merely tolerated him as Crown Prince and wasn't that impressed, but maybe that changed after he became Frederick the Great instead of Frederick the Disgraced Prince With Whom It Is Dangerous To Socialize (see also Doris Ritter)?
Oh, I was just guessing as to why Ludwig Wreech (and his brother, also working for Heinrich) had it in for Fritz. It might not have had to do anything with his love poetry for their mother! German wiki thinks she was merely polite and not that impressed while it happened, too, and links the 19th century Allgemeine Deutsche Biography, which says there were no further relatons between her and Fritz post Küstrin until 1758, mid 7 Years War, when he saw the estate of Tamsel again after the battle of Zorndorf, on August 30th. The Russians had plundered the estate, burned some of it and had killed some people, including the teacher of the younger Wreechs, Fahndorff. Fritz still had to make his headquarters there and wrote a letter to Frau v. Wreech, apologizing and promising to pay for all the damage. She took him at his word and wrote back asking for more money for the farmers in the area, too, repeatedly, which he couldn't give, being short of money. She died in 1784, when this volume of diaries end. So for all I know, Ludwig W. might have been Fritz hostile because he blamed him for the war, not because he blamed him for his poetry.