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: Wilhelmine

[cahn]

Turns out, it's in Wilhelmine! And she wasn't bashing SD, she was bashing Fritz.

Ahhhhhh this explains a lot! Excellent :D

Versailles had a whole etiquette on who was allowed to sit on what kind of surface (or at all) in whose presence.

I may have known this at some point -- it certainly does not surprise me -- but if so I had forgotten, so thank you for the explanation :D

I did something very clever that I've been annoyed with Schmidt-Lötzen for not doing, namely putting the year at the beginning of every paragraph so you don't have to flip around to figure out what year you're in, every single time. (He could have done it at the top of each page; since my script ignores pages, I went with paragraphs, because it was programmatically easier.)

This is genius!

Re: Wilhelmine

[mildred_of_midgard]

This is genius!

If I have dated a text more transparently than others, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of 18C handwriting decipherers and programming language developers. ;)