To felis, who has always shown me friendship: okay, Fritz's will was HILARIOUS, especially given that, like, did Ferdinand ever say more than two words to him ever? (I know, selenak already talked about that :) ) LOL FOREVER at the burn to Heinrich.
(Also the Pesne is a nice painting! I also like it, although I know basically zero about painting.)
Concerts Georg, who lives at Sanssouci and attends 10,000 concerts a day, is an outlier who should not have been counted. ;)
LOL. Yeah, just cause he was only attending a couple of concerts a week doesn't mean he doesn't like music :P
Also D'Argens sounds lovely about her in a letter to Fritz: "For a scholar, it is not a little thing to have a good wife. Since three years, I would have died or gone mad ten times if I hadn't had the fortune to win mine." (written in 1762) (I also find it interesting that EC, whom you wouldn't think to be fond of either Fritz' free-thinking friends or their ex commoner ex ballet dancer wives, sounds as warmly in her reply to the Marquise's condolence letter. It bears repeating: I have always, my dear Marquise, distinguished your late husband as a a very estimable man, and above all by his attachment to the late King, my husband of glorious memory whose death plunges me into the most severe pain. Rest assured that I am very sensitive to the sympathy that you show and I will always be delighted that, having fulfilled all your duties towards your husband, you are rewarded by all the possible happiness.
Awwww D'Argens <3 Also, EC gets an A+ for that condolence letter (*cough* JUST SAYING, FRITZ)
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(Also the Pesne is a nice painting! I also like it, although I know basically zero about painting.)
Concerts Georg, who lives at Sanssouci and attends 10,000 concerts a day, is an outlier who should not have been counted. ;)
LOL. Yeah, just cause he was only attending a couple of concerts a week doesn't mean he doesn't like music :P
Also D'Argens sounds lovely about her in a letter to Fritz: "For a scholar, it is not a little thing to have a good wife. Since three years, I would have died or gone mad ten times if I hadn't had the fortune to win mine." (written in 1762) (I also find it interesting that EC, whom you wouldn't think to be fond of either Fritz' free-thinking friends or their ex commoner ex ballet dancer wives, sounds as warmly in her reply to the Marquise's condolence letter. It bears repeating: I have always, my dear Marquise, distinguished your late husband as a a very estimable man, and above all by his attachment to the late King, my husband of glorious memory whose death plunges me into the most severe pain. Rest assured that I am very sensitive to the sympathy that you show and I will always be delighted that, having fulfilled all your duties towards your husband, you are rewarded by all the possible happiness.
Awwww D'Argens <3 Also, EC gets an A+ for that condolence letter (*cough* JUST SAYING, FRITZ)