As a dedicated watcher to Sachsens Glanz und Preußens Gloria, the reply to the second question is simple: Saxons are the sexiest!
LOL, of course!
Loooong before that, sexy Italian Algarotti deserts Fritz for the fleshpots of Saxony in 1741. :)
Of course, I'd forgotten!
. Yeah, the reason alas is obvious. As for German wiki, I note it's generally more conservative in 18th century articles...but that's because it all too often takes its info from copyright free 19th century publications.
Yes, I hadn't made the connection, but I constantly notice when reading about minor 18th century figures that it's always an online 19th century biographical dictionary, so yes, this makes perfect sense.
The English article is based on a French work from 2000 whose title doesn't sound especially scholarly but is at least modern!
No one could raise a rebellion in Julia Mengden's name.
Exactly.
Back to Julia Mengden, though; her going with Anna initially does make it sound like true love.
That's what I thought!
may I remind you who also was one? Poniatowski, after he couldn't be Charles Hanbury-Williams Legetation secretary anymore.
Oh, duh, why did I not remember he was an envoy? Clearly we have a pattern here! They are the sexiest, and they are more likely to be loyal to their foreign royal loves than to Saxony. Good thing August is so chill!
Algarotti: Let me put in a good words for British envoys, since one of them was the tastiest dish to me.....
True! We discussed how he may have had sex with Peter Keith (who never got to be an envoy, because Fritz is decidedly *not* chill about his envoys going/having gone native), but concluded probably not with an older and sickly Suhm. Though I'm sure they talked about Fritz, and that may be part of why Algarotti appears in Rheinsberg just three or so months after leaving St. Petersburg! (And then leaves him for the fleshpots of Dresden in 1741 and 1742, lol forever.)
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Re: Saxon envoys and Russian threesomes
Date: 2021-03-14 06:46 pm (UTC)LOL, of course!
Loooong before that, sexy Italian Algarotti deserts Fritz for the fleshpots of Saxony in 1741. :)
Of course, I'd forgotten!
. Yeah, the reason alas is obvious. As for German wiki, I note it's generally more conservative in 18th century articles...but that's because it all too often takes its info from copyright free 19th century publications.
Yes, I hadn't made the connection, but I constantly notice when reading about minor 18th century figures that it's always an online 19th century biographical dictionary, so yes, this makes perfect sense.
The English article is based on a French work from 2000 whose title doesn't sound especially scholarly but is at least modern!
No one could raise a rebellion in Julia Mengden's name.
Exactly.
Back to Julia Mengden, though; her going with Anna initially does make it sound like true love.
That's what I thought!
may I remind you who also was one? Poniatowski, after he couldn't be Charles Hanbury-Williams Legetation secretary anymore.
Oh, duh, why did I not remember he was an envoy? Clearly we have a pattern here! They are the sexiest, and they are more likely to be loyal to their foreign royal loves than to Saxony. Good thing August is so chill!
Algarotti: Let me put in a good words for British envoys, since one of them was the tastiest dish to me.....
True! We discussed how he may have had sex with Peter Keith (who never got to be an envoy, because Fritz is decidedly *not* chill about his envoys going/having gone native), but concluded probably not with an older and sickly Suhm. Though I'm sure they talked about Fritz, and that may be part of why Algarotti appears in Rheinsberg just three or so months after leaving St. Petersburg! (And then leaves him for the fleshpots of Dresden in 1741 and 1742, lol forever.)