Frederick the Great, Discussion Post 19

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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]

Algarotti, of course, would be God in this metaphor. Or the houri in Muslim paradise. Or the holy shrine, the goal of the pilgrimage. No pressure, Algarotti.

Algarotti: All in a day's work! Seriously, I get this all the time. Why do you think I'm the one you play "six degrees" with?

Seriously though, I can see where Halsband got the idea about Hervey's idea of paradise from which concludes his Hervey biography, raeding this letter.

Evidently!