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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!)

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From:

felis

Not to mention: if he's given up on Fritz like he's given up on Paris, that means he's not given up at all. :)

Heh, yes! Some of these had quite the "I'm trying to convince myself" vibe.

And apropos giving him up, Darget apparently asked him how it happened that they are talking again, and Voltaire has this to say (January 8th, 1758):
You ask me, my dear and former companion from Potsdam, how Cinéas reconciled with Pyrrhus. It is, first, that Pyrrhus made an opera of my tragedy of Merope, and sent it to me [in 1756]; it is that afterwards he was kind enough to offer me his key, which is not that of paradise, and all his favors, which no longer suit my age; it is that one of his sisters, who has always preserved his kindness to me, has been the link of this small trade which is sometimes renewed between the hero-poet-philosopher-warrior-cunning/malicious-singular-brilliant-proud-modest, etc., and the Swiss Cinéas retired from the world.

From:

mildred_of_midgard

WOW these guys. It never ceases to amaze me as I watch them be madly in love with each other after the disillusionment and then divorce, and watch the mental gymnastics they both go through as they try to deal with their equally strong, equally conflicting feelings.

Made for each other, indeed.

From:

selenak

They really are an Albee-esque couple, these two: Fritz as Martha, Voltaire as George?

Anyway, that is a golden quote, and I love every word of it. The multiword description of Fritz most of all, but then the detail of the opera.