Okay, your writeup of Morgenstern and Leineweber was a totally fascinating read! (But tonight I will probably just get to this one...)
The preface tells me Morgenstern also claimed to have been a secret agent for FW who stopped a Prussian/British war in 1739 (though the book itself says that it was in 1737 that the author was in Britain on a mission for FW), and that even Fritz "used him, made him vice chancellor of Silesia yet recalled him to Potsdam in 1756, where he died later".
Heh, case in point as to where it's fascinating to compare.
HOWEVER, he was an utterly faithful husband to SD, despite being tempted as a young man.
Well, I guess we agree on that. Although that's kind of an awful story about Charlotte!
(Lord Hervey, somewhere in the hereafter: *spit take*)
HAHAHAHA
And the wonderful story of FW on his deathbed telling SD she can write to her brother that he, FW, forgives him. But only after he's dead.
I must admit that is a good story, one of the few vaguely-endearing ones you guys told me :P
"Fiekchen, if you die, I'm going to remarry within the family. I'm going to marry your brother's daughter. Luckily, she's not like her father at all. She takes after her mother, only she's not pretty."
Wooooow. There are so many things wrong with that, I don't even know where to begin. FW!
and also he murdered little baby Friedrich Ludwig with his stupid salute shooting
Oh, I forgot to mention this earlier -- I snorted a bit there; there are so many ways they legit killed babies back then (like bleeding them for measles, omg) and salute shooting is the best he could come up with? :P
I am very hard trying to take this solely as referring to Hephaistion as an example of a "good" favourite here, but you're not making it easy, Morgenstern.
HAHAHAHAHAHA
a misunderstanding which arose, says he, because "of the beatings, because of the recruitment excesses and because of the strict executions".
Huuuuuh, I may be coming around to Leineweber's view of things, that is just... he'd have to be painfully unselfaware to write something like that otherwise. Especially given the, well, Great Incident. (And, I mean, Katte repented :PP )
"No one can deny that the late King has been the most compassionate towards the victims of his rage."
Wooooow. Yeah, either Morgenstern had to be the most naive person ever (but then whence all the secret agent stuff?) or he was writing that sentence with a lot of angry humor.
1.) Abt, who then died twice.
I don't get this, does this mean that he loved FW so much that he felt like he was dying too?
"...but for every stroke with the paintbrush which the King didn't manage well, Hänsgen got a rich share of pushes and slaps.
Re: He's just a soul whose intentions were good: Morgenstern on FW - A
The preface tells me Morgenstern also claimed to have been a secret agent for FW who stopped a Prussian/British war in 1739 (though the book itself says that it was in 1737 that the author was in Britain on a mission for FW), and that even Fritz "used him, made him vice chancellor of Silesia yet recalled him to Potsdam in 1756, where he died later".
Heh, case in point as to where it's fascinating to compare.
HOWEVER, he was an utterly faithful husband to SD, despite being tempted as a young man.
Well, I guess we agree on that. Although that's kind of an awful story about Charlotte!
(Lord Hervey, somewhere in the hereafter: *spit take*)
HAHAHAHA
And the wonderful story of FW on his deathbed telling SD she can write to her brother that he, FW, forgives him. But only after he's dead.
I must admit that is a good story, one of the few vaguely-endearing ones you guys told me :P
"Fiekchen, if you die, I'm going to remarry within the family. I'm going to marry your brother's daughter. Luckily, she's not like her father at all. She takes after her mother, only she's not pretty."
Wooooow. There are so many things wrong with that, I don't even know where to begin. FW!
and also he murdered little baby Friedrich Ludwig with his stupid salute shooting
Oh, I forgot to mention this earlier -- I snorted a bit there; there are so many ways they legit killed babies back then (like bleeding them for measles, omg) and salute shooting is the best he could come up with? :P
I am very hard trying to take this solely as referring to Hephaistion as an example of a "good" favourite here, but you're not making it easy, Morgenstern.
HAHAHAHAHAHA
a misunderstanding which arose, says he, because "of the beatings, because of the recruitment excesses and because of the strict executions".
Huuuuuh, I may be coming around to Leineweber's view of things, that is just... he'd have to be painfully unselfaware to write something like that otherwise. Especially given the, well, Great Incident. (And, I mean, Katte repented :PP )
"No one can deny that the late King has been the most compassionate towards the victims of his rage."
Wooooow. Yeah, either Morgenstern had to be the most naive person ever (but then whence all the secret agent stuff?) or he was writing that sentence with a lot of angry humor.
1.) Abt, who then died twice.
I don't get this, does this mean that he loved FW so much that he felt like he was dying too?
"...but for every stroke with the paintbrush which the King didn't manage well, Hänsgen got a rich share of pushes and slaps.
Heh.