It is always so lovely (and extremely entertaining!) to get your writeups! :D
Bribery: Okay. Yeah. Seckendorff was instructed to bribe everyone, and Grumbkow was the best example, except I don't mention any sums because I want to frustrate the salon. I do mention sums of everyone else's briberies, because EVERYONE was bribing officials in that century, see Louis offering sum x, Peter the Great sum Y, and also this and also that, and why are we the ones getting stuck with the "slimy bribery guys" reputation, is what I want to know.
Lol! I can sense salon gnashing its teeth :D So is the conclusion then that Seckendorff's bribes were way bigger than everyone else's?
"how dare FW say he'd rather lose his country and his people than allow MT to marry Don Carlos of Spain!"
Ha! Okay, I must ask: which Don Carlos is this? (European royalty, WHY must you name all your kids the same thing??) (I know it's not the one Schiller/Verdi referenced, but I don't know the rest of them.)
([personal profile] selenak: REALLY? Did I read this?)
AHAHAHAHA yeah, like mildred says, you are cursed for your doubts! :D
for the King doesn't hesitate at public meals to shower the Crown Prince with such titles as the most common and low of men would hesitate to give to his son.
eeeeeek. Oh Fritz :( When Seckendorff thinks you're going too far...
Rochow, following my advice, has decided to admonish the King somewhat on this matter. ("dem König Vorstellungen darüber zu machen" is difficult to translate. It's not "chiding", which Rochow can't do to his monarch, but it's stronger than just "talk to him about".)
Ugh, again! (Although as usual I appreciate your translation notes!)
Seckendorff in 1759, kidnapped and locked up in Magdeburg: I stand by my opinion on Fritz' temper.
Re: Arneth-Eugene-Seckendorff
Bribery: Okay. Yeah. Seckendorff was instructed to bribe everyone, and Grumbkow was the best example, except I don't mention any sums because I want to frustrate the salon. I do mention sums of everyone else's briberies, because EVERYONE was bribing officials in that century, see Louis offering sum x, Peter the Great sum Y, and also this and also that, and why are we the ones getting stuck with the "slimy bribery guys" reputation, is what I want to know.
Lol! I can sense salon gnashing its teeth :D So is the conclusion then that Seckendorff's bribes were way bigger than everyone else's?
"how dare FW say he'd rather lose his country and his people than allow MT to marry Don Carlos of Spain!"
Ha! Okay, I must ask: which Don Carlos is this? (European royalty, WHY must you name all your kids the same thing??) (I know it's not the one Schiller/Verdi referenced, but I don't know the rest of them.)
([personal profile] selenak: REALLY? Did I read this?)
AHAHAHAHA yeah, like mildred says, you are cursed for your doubts! :D
for the King doesn't hesitate at public meals to shower the Crown Prince with such titles as the most common and low of men would hesitate to give to his son.
eeeeeek. Oh Fritz :( When Seckendorff thinks you're going too far...
Rochow, following my advice, has decided to admonish the King somewhat on this matter. ("dem König Vorstellungen darüber zu machen" is difficult to translate. It's not "chiding", which Rochow can't do to his monarch, but it's stronger than just "talk to him about".)
Ugh, again! (Although as usual I appreciate your translation notes!)
Seckendorff in 1759, kidnapped and locked up in Magdeburg: I stand by my opinion on Fritz' temper.
HA.