Frederick the Great, Discussion Post 20

[cahn]

Yuletide signups so far:
3 requests for Frederician RPF, 2 offers
2 requests for Circle of Voltaire RPF, 3 offers !! :D :D

(I am so curious as to who the third person is!)

Comments

Re: Alcmene and the vault

[selenak]

Firstly, yay for the dog burial information, thank you, felis! Secondly, while I don't mind someone taking one of Alcmene II's bones as a souvenir as much as I mind people doing the same to Katte's skeleton, I have to day, 19th century tourists really have no shame in that regard, do they?

Anyway, if the bones were there in 1860 but calcified, I'm assuming they were entirely gone by 1991.

Folichon would like to point out he was the one and only Folichon in Wilhelmine's life, and she never used the name again. She also built him a tomb of his own, to wit:



But he would have been happy to share it with Biche!

Re: Alcmene and the vault

[mildred_of_midgard]

Wow. That is a heck of a tomb for a dog!

Secondly, while I don't mind someone taking one of Alcmene II's bones as a souvenir as much as I mind people doing the same to Katte's skeleton, I have to day, 19th century tourists really have no shame in that regard, do they?

What I was thinking! Though 18th century tourists had no shame when it came to looting works of art and archaeological remains: I enjoyed Wilhelmine cozying up to the Pope's people so they would look the other way while she illegally removed piece after piece from Italy. ;)

Anyway, if the bones were there in 1860 but calcified

I'm wondering what it means that they were calcified: I thought bones *were* calcified, like, by definition?

If he means they were already starting to visibly break up, then yeah, they were probably gone 130 years later.

Re: Alcmene and the vault

[cahn]

Wowwwwww these guys and their tombs! I am impressed.

Re: Alcmene and the vault

[selenak]

In 2016, contemporary artist Ottmar Hörl did a "Folichon" installation all over Bayreuth, so Folichon, in various colors, is now everywhere: <a href="http://www.wilhelmine-von-bayreuth.info/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Flyer_Folichon.pdf>check it out</a>.