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

[selenak]

The Voltaire bio by Orieux - it's stylishly written but also very of its time (would probably come across as mannered if encountering this style at first), and above all, really long (over 1000 pages at least in the German translation), so I'm not sure I'd recommend to you for French practice. If you want to read something Voltairian themed in French, have you considered the Fritz correspondance in the original? This has the advantage that Mildred already did the English translation alogorithms for you to counterchek if you get stuck.

Re: Good news

[cahn]

Yeah, this might be something I read in English (eventually?) - the correspondence does sound interesting!