Fritz: I write my own anti-Voltaire pamphlets, thank you very much. :P
No kidding, though who would have known that then? :)
Wolff: his statement re: French and his opinion on the other scholars also makes into both books. BTW, the Manteuffel/Wolff correspondence is bilingual, in that Manteuffel writes French and Wolff writes German, so I think we can take Wolff at his word - he oould read and understand French in written form well enough, but wasn't comfortable enough with it to write, let alone talk in the language. I can see why, even aside from everything else, this would make you balk at joining an instutition where the King has just decreed all conversation and all writing must be in French.
The editor then tells roughtly the same story of the literary war between Fritz and Deschamp, and his flight to Kassel and London. No idea how accurate the details are, but this is what 1787 guy says!
Well, Dechamps is another who later wrote a vengeful memoir, so I assume that was the common source for both this editor and Bronisch.
How does Dechamps find out? From little Ferdinand.
Who has always shown Fritz friendship!
LOL. I had a quick gander in the Bielfeld letter where he writes about taking over Ferdinand's education, and he says that while ten years old F's education clearly had been somewhat neglected so far, what with Ferd only showing enthusiasm for hunting (don't do it, Ferdinand, your aim is terrible!) and the military, NOW that Bielfeld has taken over, the scholarly bug has bit him. I note - as several biographers before me - that Fritz was on to something re: his brothers' education having been neglected under FW, but again I say: if you're a teacher and have seen how Fritz' teachers have faired, what would you do?
I love how this matters SO much to Bronisch.
So much that it's even included in the blurb printed on the back of the "Kampf um Kronprinz Friedrich" book - ...(Bronisch) solves the mystery of the naming of "Sanssouci"....
Re: His Name is Diable. Le Diable: Bad Times
Fritz: I write my own anti-Voltaire pamphlets, thank you very much. :P
No kidding, though who would have known that then? :)
Wolff: his statement re: French and his opinion on the other scholars also makes into both books. BTW, the Manteuffel/Wolff correspondence is bilingual, in that Manteuffel writes French and Wolff writes German, so I think we can take Wolff at his word - he oould read and understand French in written form well enough, but wasn't comfortable enough with it to write, let alone talk in the language. I can see why, even aside from everything else, this would make you balk at joining an instutition where the King has just decreed all conversation and all writing must be in French.
The editor then tells roughtly the same story of the literary war between Fritz and Deschamp, and his flight to Kassel and London. No idea how accurate the details are, but this is what 1787 guy says!
Well, Dechamps is another who later wrote a vengeful memoir, so I assume that was the common source for both this editor and Bronisch.
How does Dechamps find out? From little Ferdinand.
Who has always shown Fritz friendship!
LOL. I had a quick gander in the Bielfeld letter where he writes about taking over Ferdinand's education, and he says that while ten years old F's education clearly had been somewhat neglected so far, what with Ferd only showing enthusiasm for hunting (don't do it, Ferdinand, your aim is terrible!) and the military, NOW that Bielfeld has taken over, the scholarly bug has bit him. I note - as several biographers before me - that Fritz was on to something re: his brothers' education having been neglected under FW, but again I say: if you're a teacher and have seen how Fritz' teachers have faired, what would you do?
I love how this matters SO much to Bronisch.
So much that it's even included in the blurb printed on the back of the "Kampf um Kronprinz Friedrich" book - ...(Bronisch) solves the mystery of the naming of "Sanssouci"....