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: Lord Hervey to Lady Mary

[mildred_of_midgard]

Also, I wish we had the Lady Mary letter with the false gods that inspired this, but I went and checked Halsband, and we don't. I suppose you would have included it if we did. ;)

Also. Halsband puts the year on the top of each page! So you don't have to flip dozens of pages to find a date, and you also don't have to flip dozens of pages back or forth to figure out what year you're in!

Re: Lord Hervey to Lady Mary

[selenak]

We have none of Lady Mary's letters to Hervey, because his son returned them to her after his death, causing her to say that Hervey was the only man she could trust everything with and her bff forever. And then the letters were destroyed, either by Lady Mary herself or by her daughter after her death. Anyway, this is why we're in luck Algarotti, being not an English gentleman, did not return Lady Mary's letters to her but evidently kept them for Byron to find in Venice decades later.

Re: Lord Hervey to Lady Mary

[cahn]

I'm sorry she burned them, but

his son returned them to her after his death, causing her to say that Hervey was the only man she could trust everything with and her bff forever.

is kind of adorable.