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: Fritz/Voltaire

[felis]

Certainly in line with how freaking *gaunt* his death mask was in 1786!

Re: diets and being hard on himself to do his job, see also this pithy line from another 1776 letter to Voltaire: Il n'est pas nécessaire que je vive, mais bien que j'agisse. That seemed like a very Fritz way of looking at things to me.

Worcestershire sauce (which no, had not been invented yet)

*cringe*

and ginger

Ohh, chocolate with ginger is quite nice, though! And thinking about it, the pepper would have been much more at home in chocolate instead of coffee as well...

Re: Fritz/Voltaire

[mildred_of_midgard]

Il n'est pas nécessaire que je vive, mais bien que j'agisse. That seemed like a very Fritz way of looking at things to me.

Yep. I'm reading Krockow and I literally just got to this line when the notification of your comment came in:

In almost half a century he didn't miss a single day of carrying out his official duties; the human right to vacation and recreation, which statesmen all over the world take for granted today, would have been incomprehensible to him.

The sentence immediately before this goes:

Like his father, he took care of everything and everything, down to the really trivial: the marriage license or rather the non-license for a Rittmeister [captain], the appointment or transfer of a pastor, the grant of money for the repair of a street or its refusal.

So that's why he has to be dead to be "sans souci."

Ohh, chocolate with ginger is quite nice, though!

I hesitated because I was thinking that, but then I decided the Worcestershire sauce would ruin the effect. Mind you, I'm not inclined to try. ;)

Open to alternate suggestions, though!

Fritzian recipes: a new type of crackfic.