RE: FS in need of laundry cleaning, and him from Lorraine, too. :) Mind you, he did grew up partly at the Vienna court, and also I am assuming that a lot more people back then were bilingual in Lorraine, just as they still are in the Alsace today. The mixing of languages also reminds me of Prince Eugene, whose signature famously unites three (his mother's Italian, the German of his Austrian boss, and the French he grew up with) - "Eugenio von Savoye".
Fredersdorf: and Voltaire kept bitching and inventing about the spelling of the letter our man in Frankfurt received in 1753!
Re: MT and FS
Date: 2021-02-12 05:01 pm (UTC)Fredersdorf: and Voltaire kept bitching and inventing about the spelling of the letter our man in Frankfurt received in 1753!