You should have seen my face when I saw that there was a passport and it had turned up in salon! This place is amaaaazing.
Now, the passport is interesting, because it's for both "Graf Ferdinand Albrecht v. Schaffgotsch" AND for Algarotti, who doesn't seem to have had a pseudonym after all, no matter what Rödenbeck says.
Interesting! Voltaire even says:
Algaroti, who already had attached himself to [Fritz], was the only one who went unmasked.
Bielfeld doesn't have it, and of course neither does Koser. Preuss does, but is probably relying on Rödenbeck, who doesn't name his source. The two sources he cites (other than the Berlin newspapers he quotes) are Bielfeld and Voltaire, neither of which name Pfuhl, so I can't trace Pfuhl back any earlier than Rödenbeck.
Fritz did get to visit the theatre, and attracted curiosity there as well, because he commented loudly on the performance and gave a lot of money to a girl who was selling lottery tickets. (If that anecdote isn't true after all, it was certainly invented by someone who knew him. :P)
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Re: The Strassbourg Trip
Date: 2021-02-19 10:17 pm (UTC)Now, the passport is interesting, because it's for both "Graf Ferdinand Albrecht v. Schaffgotsch" AND for Algarotti, who doesn't seem to have had a pseudonym after all, no matter what Rödenbeck says.
Interesting! Voltaire even says:
Algaroti, who already had attached himself to [Fritz], was the only one who went unmasked.
Bielfeld doesn't have it, and of course neither does Koser. Preuss does, but is probably relying on Rödenbeck, who doesn't name his source. The two sources he cites (other than the Berlin newspapers he quotes) are Bielfeld and Voltaire, neither of which name Pfuhl, so I can't trace Pfuhl back any earlier than Rödenbeck.
Fritz did get to visit the theatre, and attracted curiosity there as well, because he commented loudly on the performance and gave a lot of money to a girl who was selling lottery tickets. (If that anecdote isn't true after all, it was certainly invented by someone who knew him. :P)
I died laughing. Se non fu vero, fu bene trovato!