much liked/loved paternal mentor / FW is Camas’ commander-in-chief and ultra distrustful against his officers conspiring with the rising sun
I guess that might have been one reason for Fritz' caution re: Wusterhausen and writing to Camas there. Do we know anything about how Fritz and Camas got close in the first place?
Madame de Wr... writing to Voltaire: Madame de Wreech, whom Fritz wrote poetry to in Küstrin?
No idea, might be. The ellipses come from a Fritz letter, not sure why he wouldn't write it out.
Hang on, what? In that order? That would be a very negative first judgment on Valori
Yep, in that order! Fritz definitely didn't like Valori, I remember that he said as much in his letters to Voltaire and regretted that he replaced La Chetardie ... wait, let me have a look ... okay:
October 10th, before meeting him: I don't know who and how this M. Valori is, but I've heard it said that he doesn't have the tone of good company. (Pleschinski translates "kein angenehmer Zeitgenosse" - no idea who told Fritz that)
And then in December around the same time as the Camas letter: This M. de Valori, so long announced by the voice of the public, so often promised by the gazettes, so long arrested in Hamburg, has finally arrived in Berlin. It makes us very much regret La Chétardie. M. de Valori shows us every day what we lost with the first. It is now only theoretical courses of the Brabant wars, trifles and minutiae of the French army; and I constantly see a man who believes himself vis-à-vis the enemy and at the head of his brigade. I always fear that he would take me for a counterscarp or a work with horns, and that he would dishonestly assault me. M. de Valori almost always has a migraine; he has not the tone of society; he does not soup; and it is said that the headache does him too much honor to inconvenience him, and that he does not deserve it at all.
Also: Valori says that you were exiled from France as an enemy of the Roman religion, and I replied that he had lied about it.
Re: Camas Letters I - Colonel Camas (1734-1740)
I guess that might have been one reason for Fritz' caution re: Wusterhausen and writing to Camas there. Do we know anything about how Fritz and Camas got close in the first place?
Madame de Wr... writing to Voltaire: Madame de Wreech, whom Fritz wrote poetry to in Küstrin?
No idea, might be. The ellipses come from a Fritz letter, not sure why he wouldn't write it out.
Hang on, what? In that order? That would be a very negative first judgment on Valori
Yep, in that order! Fritz definitely didn't like Valori, I remember that he said as much in his letters to Voltaire and regretted that he replaced La Chetardie ... wait, let me have a look ... okay:
October 10th, before meeting him: I don't know who and how this M. Valori is, but I've heard it said that he doesn't have the tone of good company. (Pleschinski translates "kein angenehmer Zeitgenosse" - no idea who told Fritz that)
And then in December around the same time as the Camas letter: This M. de Valori, so long announced by the voice of the public, so often promised by the gazettes, so long arrested in Hamburg, has finally arrived in Berlin. It makes us very much regret La Chétardie. M. de Valori shows us every day what we lost with the first. It is now only theoretical courses of the Brabant wars, trifles and minutiae of the French army; and I constantly see a man who believes himself vis-à-vis the enemy and at the head of his brigade. I always fear that he would take me for a counterscarp or a work with horns, and that he would dishonestly assault me. M. de Valori almost always has a migraine; he has not the tone of society; he does not soup; and it is said that the headache does him too much honor to inconvenience him, and that he does not deserve it at all.
Also: Valori says that you were exiled from France as an enemy of the Roman religion, and I replied that he had lied about it.
There you have it!