Frederick the Great, discussion post 16

[cahn]

We have slowed down a lot, but are still (sporadically) going! And somehow filled up the last post while I wasn't looking!

...I was asked to start a new thread so that STDs could be discussed. Really! :D

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Re: AW readthrough

[mildred_of_midgard]

He will be crushed to learn Fritz borrowed the quip from Charles V.

The latest in a series of blows from your salon participation. :)

Whom is the letter addressed to?

So that one is actually addressed to the Comte de Solms-Sonnewalde, who I think was the Russian envoy. 1780. So different from the one Ziebura refers to (in person to the Oberkammerherr von Loos, per Lehndorff) which means Fritz, as he so often does (and as I do and Maupertuis no doubt also did), repeats his favorite anecdotes and historical references.

The Lehndorff volume Ziebura cites, btw, is volume 4, so right around the time of 1780, plus or minus a few years. Clearly Fritz had hit on a winning formula for "I don't give a fuck."

worth pointing out that for all the Habsburg related jokes there, another reason why MT was an aberration

Yep, I was thinking of her! (Back when I was ~15-17, I spent hoooours on this one massive European royal genealogy site, tracing out the family trees of everyone I knew, and one of my hobbies was finding out how spouses were related. I remember being quite pleased that I connected Fritz and EC on the first try just by guessing (and that was a few generations back!) and was very much BAD IDEA! about FW and SD. I remember nodding approvingly at MT's parents and her marriage.

My mother, our family genealogist, could never get me to show the slightest interest in our own family tree, though. :P)