Conclusion: Maybe Achim did his exaggerating thing again, and the story his grandmother told also only referenced one "whore!" occasion, not FW doing this every Sunday, but I can well believe it happened.
*nod* Yes, that makes perfect sense. Note also this passage from Voltaire's memoirs:
After Frederic-William had reviewed his giants, he used to walk through the town, and every body fled before- him full speed. If he happened to meet a woman, he would demand why she staid idling her time in the streets, and exclaim, ('Go--get home with you, you lazy hussy; an honest woman has no business over the threshold of her own door;' which remonstrance he would accompany with a hearty box on the ear, a kick in the groin (!), or a few well applied strokes on the shoulders with his cane.
Also, what does come across is that he wanted her to be happy in this marriage, not just play nurse to him and deliver her fortune to him. Which puts him a head of a great many husbands of the age!
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Re: "Anekdoten, die wir erlebten und hörten"
Date: 2021-07-25 02:06 pm (UTC)*nod* Yes, that makes perfect sense. Note also this passage from Voltaire's memoirs:
After Frederic-William had reviewed his giants, he used to walk through the town, and every body fled before- him full speed. If he happened to meet a woman, he would demand why she staid idling her time in the streets, and exclaim, ('Go--get home with you, you lazy hussy; an honest woman has no business over the threshold of her own door;' which
remonstrance he would accompany with a hearty box on the ear, a kick in the groin (!), or a few well applied strokes on the shoulders with his cane.
Also, what does come across is that he wanted her to be happy in this marriage, not just play nurse to him and deliver her fortune to him. Which puts him a head of a great many husbands of the age!
Indeed! <3 Fredersdorf
Also, from your first post:
very vivid intense blue eyes
Fredersdorf has a type? ;)