I see cahn has already covered the double meaning of "baiser". (Fritz definitely uses it in the second sense elsewhere, as when he's gossipping with the Marquis D'Argens about Émilie's sex life years after her death and says "she only let herself be fucked by poets and geometers". And I think he also uses it at least ambigously when asking Henri de Catt if he's already, well, either kissed or fucked the local girl Catt was after and offers to write love poetry for him. (This is in the diary, not in the memoirs.) So... poor Finette, yes, I hope she didn't see the letter.
This relationship with the Countess really comes across as one of the most positive relationships Fritz had in these quotes! I'm also intrigued that he's sorry to see BayreuthFriedrich go, seeing as he started out listing him as least fave brother-in-law towards Mantteuffel in the 30s and wrote to Heinrich when sending him to represent the family at Wilhelmine's daughter's wedding that the guy was a lightweight joke or something like that. Though of course that was when Wilhelmine herself was alive and well, and after her death Fritz sees him in a way as her legacy?
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Re: Camas Letters II - Countess Camas Part Two (1760-1763)
Date: 2021-01-22 08:01 am (UTC)This relationship with the Countess really comes across as one of the most positive relationships Fritz had in these quotes! I'm also intrigued that he's sorry to see BayreuthFriedrich go, seeing as he started out listing him as least fave brother-in-law towards Mantteuffel in the 30s and wrote to Heinrich when sending him to represent the family at Wilhelmine's daughter's wedding that the guy was a lightweight joke or something like that. Though of course that was when Wilhelmine herself was alive and well, and after her death Fritz sees him in a way as her legacy?