Frederick the Great, Discussion Post 19

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Yuletide nominations:

18th Century CE Federician RPF
Maria Theresia | Maria Theresa of Austria
Voltaire
Friedrich II von Preußen | Frederick the Great
Ernst Ahasverus von Lehndorff
Friedrich Heinrich Ludwig von Preußen | Henry of Prussia (1726-1802)
Wilhelmine von Preußen | Wilhelmine of Prussia (1709-1758)
Anna Amalie von Preußen | Anna Amalia of Prussia (1723-1787)
Catherine II of Russia
Hans Hermann von Katte
Peter Karl Christoph von Keith
Michael Gabriel Fredersdorf
August Wilhelm von Preußen | Augustus William of Prussia (1722-1758)

Circle of Voltaire RPF
Emilie du Chatelet
Jeanne Antoinette Poisson (Madame de Pompadour)
John Hervey (1696-1743)
Marie Louise Mignot Denis
Lady Mary Wortley-Montagu
Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis
Armand de Vignerot du Plessis de Richelieu (1696-1788)
Francesco Algarotti

Comments

Re: Chesterfield on FW

[selenak]

Gread quote. Hervey has some dissings of Chesterfield in his memoirs - they were competing wits, and also the Whigs were split in two factions; Chesterfield, after early on being part of the Robert Walpole faction, then changed his mind and joined the other faction, going as far as anonymously publishing a journal called "Old England" trashing Walpole and G2, so he and Hervey were political enemies as well. But even Hervey admits the man knew how to coin a phrase.

(Doctor Johnson had a famous clash with Chesterfield years later and said apropos the "Letters to his son" that Chesterfield's idea of being a gentleman clearly involved having the morals of a whore and the manners of a dancing master.)