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

[cahn]

I will give you a one-time pass for not meeting your quota because I want to keep up with you too :P I have still not finished Oster, but now that I have finished my epic Thief readthrough I am planning on it, though now that you're starting Lehndorff I am really wanting to read along there.

Re: Good news

[mildred_of_midgard]

I kind of spent the last 3.5 hours giving Royal Patron stories from our fandom in return for some articles. :D But after I eat, I shall do more Lehndorff!

Oh, and, I do totally intend to read the prefatory material (I promise, Selena!), but I admit I skipped straight to the diaries last night, because I'm so excited about reading Lehndorff, so you should totally do the same, and at some point we will calm down and go back to the prefaces. (Although, it occurs to me you can skim, at least; I have to work for every sentence. :P)

Btw, Royal Patron development: I was telling him about AW, and had to explain who he was. Then later on in the conversation, I referred again to AW, and to check that he understood who I was talking about, Royal Patron said, "The one Fritz treated as the family stud?" and from then on we just called AW the Stud, and we laughed every time. :D

Also, I emailed RP 7 maps during our conversation, and we sat down and went over them together. He's getting an education out of his patronage! (I'm taking him to Sanssouci someday, and, since I do not drive, making him drive me from there to Küstrin and Wust and probably Rheinsberg, we've already agreed on that. :P Although we do not know WHEN, grr.)