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: Molière - Küstrin poetry

[mildred_of_midgard]

I'd forgotten the details, including how applicable the scene with Oronte is to the Hille and Fritz situation. It's really perfect

I don't know anything about Moliere's life story, but I'm going to go out on a limb and speculate that, like Voltaire, he probably got asked to beta read bad to mediocre poetry by rich people a lot. ;)

Re: Molière - Küstrin poetry

[selenak]

I only know he was a non-noble actor-playwright at the court of Louis XIV., which makes me assume the same thing. :) Checking on his German wiki entry, I see it also claims Alceste in The Misanthrope is the most autobiogrophical of his characters.

(Also, another thing he had in common with Voltaire was that since he was an actor who got in trouble with the church a couple of times (notoriously, because of Tartuffe, the play in which he makes fun of a religious hypocrites), he nearly hadn't gotten a Christian burial; it needed the personal intervention of Louis XIV. for it to happen.