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

Sanssouci

[mildred_of_midgard]

I admit that I had to look them up because I was unaware of the story.

I forgot to mention, when I did my write-up of Sanssouci, I covered the Temple of Friendship and did a brief overview of the mythological couples depicted there, because even I, semi-Classicist, had forgotten one of the four, and figured there might be other people who could use an intro to the others. Just FYI!

Also, next time I'm at Sanssouci, I'm so using this page plus Selena's write-up as my cheat-sheet. I missed so many things when I was there!

Oh, speaking of which, I recently read in Wilhelmine's memoirs that her father had set up the Marly Gardens (which are now part of the Sanssouci park), and she has no idea why he named them "Marly". To which I thought, she could use this cheat sheet too! If Wikipedia is to be trusted, he named them ironically after Louis XIV's Marly-le-Roi palace. (Ironic because Louis and FW had kind of opposite opinions on conspicuous consumption.)

Re: Sanssouci

[felis]

Heh, I remembered that they were in the Temple and so I did indeed check out your write-up first before I went to wiki for more info. :D

I didn't know that about the Marly Gardens! They've always been connected to the Friedenskirche in my head, which was built much later, so I just assumed the name happened at the same time. (I also just realized that I've had it wrong all this time: it's Marly, self, not Maryl.)
Naming things after Louis XIV stuff seems more like a FI thing to do - maybe FW was making a statement against both FI and Louis by naming a kitchen garden of all things after Marly?

I missed so many things when I was there!

Tell me about it! I actually unearthed my pictures from ten years ago today, and I discovered that apparently, I was mostly interested in taking pretty landscape pictures of the grounds and artsy detail shots and not so much in photographing stuff that might be useful to me right now. Quite the lack of foresight. :P