Frederick the Great, Discussion Post 19

[cahn]

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: Good news

[cahn]

...yeah, there's no way I'd be ready to do French before 2021. November and December are historically just really really busy times for me, even laying aside that I plan to do a loooooot less for Yuletide than I did last year (and just enjoy all the fic that other people in our fandom write) :P :)

Re: Good news

[mildred_of_midgard]

Very important question buried in that wall of text: do you want shorter Lehndorff paragraphs, and are you willing to have that count as your translation favor?

Re: Good news

[cahn]

Lol, whoops, I started that comment meaning to reply to it, too :P No, that's OK, I'm not going to be reading it in German anyway so longer paragraphs are fine.

Re: Good news

[mildred_of_midgard]

Update: Lehndorff on Friday, if all goes well tomorrow. :D

Where "all" means both "I finish reading the last 20 or so pages of Wilhelmine's memoirs" (woot) and "I finish formatting the Lehndorff volume, which I'm about halfway done with."

ETA: And I'm also successfully chipping away at comments, but if you read a bunch of books recently and did lengthy write-ups and left me questions involving detective work (you know who you are ;)), I might not get to them until this weekend, just be warned.

And if you replied to my comment on reading pedagogy in a non-Fritz post (you know who you are), I have a reply in my head, but don't hold your breath waiting for it. ;)

Re: Good news

[cahn]

Yeah, and meanwhile I'm getting farther and farther behind :P And I won't get caught up tonight as I have to do some work this evening, though I'll try to at least make a start. Maybe this weekend :)

(On the other hand, I have finished all the Thief books now, so I will be able to read other things :PP )