Frederick the Great, Discussion Post 23

[cahn]

aaaaaand it's time for a new discussion post! :D (you guys are so fast!)

Comments

Re: The Strassbourg Trip

[felis]

I think Bielfeld is wrong about the inns actually, because as Volz says via the two French sources, Fritz and Wartensleben stayed at the Raven. Wiegand confirms that and also says that AW and Algarotti arrived later (they'd apparently split up to attract less attention - great job on that! :P) and then stayed at the Ghost. (Rödenbeck has is the wrong way around as well, so I suspect he either read Bielfeld or they both had the same wrong source.)

Re: The Strassbourg Trip

[mildred_of_midgard]

Rödenbeck cites Bielfeld as one of his sources, so that must be it. I kind of suspect Bielfeld's source might have been Fritz and/or AW, but he was also writing after the fact from a memory of a story that was probably told to him orally, not writing on the spot as it happened, so it makes sense that he would reverse the inns. I have been guilty of worse memory lapses!