Very informative and highly entertaining write-up. The one man woobie defense squad, I'm amused. (First published in 1996 by the way, so pre-Euro indeed.)
until one Dr. Fey put an end to it
Well, thank God for that. And I mean, woobie or not, poor kid indeed.
"Herzallerliebstes Brüderchen, weil Ihr bei Eurer grossen Glückseligkeit da Ihr alllzeit bei Papa und Mama seit, meiner ganz vergesset, so will ich hiermit beweisen, dass ich fleissig an Euch gedenke. Ich hoffe, mein Herzensbrüderchen bald wieder zu sehen."
Awww.
Rébenac, the French envoy who was on Team Dorothea for the above named reason
Aha! See, when the author of the Schwedt book wrote that the French envoy had no horse in this race and therefore his reports could be taken at face value (i.e. clearly F1 and the scheming Sophies were at fault for most of the falling out), I was pretty sure that this couldn't possibly be true and that the French must have had their own agenda here, but of course I didn't know about the details you just gave us. Nice.
"The King of Sweden is right; for my son isn't good for anything."
Well, if that doesn't sound like history repeating...
Re: Once Upon A Time in Brandenburg: Portrait of F1 as a Young Woobie
until one Dr. Fey put an end to it
Well, thank God for that. And I mean, woobie or not, poor kid indeed.
"Herzallerliebstes Brüderchen,
weil Ihr bei Eurer grossen Glückseligkeit da Ihr alllzeit bei Papa und Mama seit, meiner ganz vergesset, so will ich hiermit beweisen, dass ich fleissig an Euch gedenke. Ich hoffe, mein Herzensbrüderchen bald wieder zu sehen."
Awww.
Rébenac, the French envoy who was on Team Dorothea for the above named reason
Aha! See, when the author of the Schwedt book wrote that the French envoy had no horse in this race and therefore his reports could be taken at face value (i.e. clearly F1 and the scheming Sophies were at fault for most of the falling out), I was pretty sure that this couldn't possibly be true and that the French must have had their own agenda here, but of course I didn't know about the details you just gave us. Nice.
"The King of Sweden is right; for my son isn't good for anything."
Well, if that doesn't sound like history repeating...