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: Meeting Voltaire: as documented by James Boswell

[mildred_of_midgard]

Most, though not all, of this was in The Club, thank you for providing the full hilarity!

sleep upon two stairs in the bedchamber of your maid

Oh, and this confused me (that sounds not only terribly uncomfortable, but even I, who am not tall, would need at least 3 stairs!) until I read on and realized it was a typo for two chairs. ;) The accidental mental image is great, though.

*The current Stuart claimant of the British throne. Over to Mildred for more.

Oh, no you don't. You know I've been steadfastly avoiding the Jacobites for over a year now, and this week of all weeks? :P

James Francis Edward Stuart, Catholic son of overthrown and exiled Catholic James II/VII, father of Bonnie Prince Charlie, living in Rome on a pension from the Pope because none of the Catholic monarchs want to touch that with a ten-foot pole. I.e. they'd all love to have a fellow Catholic monarch back on the British throne, but politically, they're too savvy to provide more than a bit of support here and there at key moments. The bulk of the effort has to come from within Britain. And if that's not enough to get the Stuarts on the throne, then, "Tough, we'll deal with a Protestant monarch" is the attitude.

Someone's going to yell at me if I don't get off the computer soon and go do German, so that's all you get. :P