Frederick the Great, Discussion Post 30
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cahnIn which, despite the title, I would like to be told about the English Revolution, which is yet another casualty of my extremely poor history education :P :)
Also, this is probably the place to say that RMSE opened with three Fritz-fics, all of which I think are readable with minimum canon knowledge:
The Boy Who Lived - if you knew about the doomed escape-from-Prussia-that-didn't happen and tragic death of Fritz's boyfriend Hans Hermann von Katte, you may not have known about Peter Keith, the third young man who conspired to escape Prussia -- and the only one who actually did. This is his story. I think readable without canon knowledge except what I just said here.
Challenge Yourself to Relax - My gift, I posted about this before! Corporate AU with my problematic fave, Fritz' brother Heinrich, who's still Fritz's l'autre moi-meme even in corporate AU. Readable without canon knowledge if one has familiarity with the corporate world and the dysfunctions thereof.
The Rise and Fall of the RendezvousWithFame Exchange - Fandom AU with BNF fanfic writer Voltaire, exchange mod Fritz, and the inevitable meltdown. (I wrote this one and am quite proud of the terrible physics-adjacent pun contained within.) Readable without canon knowledge if one has familiarity with fandom and the dysfunctions thereof :P
Also, this is probably the place to say that RMSE opened with three Fritz-fics, all of which I think are readable with minimum canon knowledge:
The Boy Who Lived - if you knew about the doomed escape-from-Prussia-that-didn't happen and tragic death of Fritz's boyfriend Hans Hermann von Katte, you may not have known about Peter Keith, the third young man who conspired to escape Prussia -- and the only one who actually did. This is his story. I think readable without canon knowledge except what I just said here.
Challenge Yourself to Relax - My gift, I posted about this before! Corporate AU with my problematic fave, Fritz' brother Heinrich, who's still Fritz's l'autre moi-meme even in corporate AU. Readable without canon knowledge if one has familiarity with the corporate world and the dysfunctions thereof.
The Rise and Fall of the RendezvousWithFame Exchange - Fandom AU with BNF fanfic writer Voltaire, exchange mod Fritz, and the inevitable meltdown. (I wrote this one and am quite proud of the terrible physics-adjacent pun contained within.) Readable without canon knowledge if one has familiarity with fandom and the dysfunctions thereof :P
Re: FW awfulness reminder
Date: 2021-09-19 06:00 pm (UTC)Two thirds of the way through Goldstone! And the Montefiore *is* the German book you're supposed to be yelling at me about. ;) (I made it about as far as I plan to read for now through his Romanovs book, i.e. through Paul, at the end of the 18th century. Which is the one I was reading in English.)
Additionally, I'm working through Massie's bio of Peter the Great (enjoying it!), and a non-salon book that I believe Cahn is also reading, or at least has on her reading list: Sapolsky's Behave.
Has Blanning mentioned Gundling yet?
Gundling is Sir Not Appearing in This Book, but since This Book is "European history for 168 years: discuss," that's more forgiveable than in a book or essay *about* FW.
But in general, yes, it is frustrating that Gundling doesn't get enough attention in the Fritz or FW books. I think he also doesn't make an appearance in Blanning's Fritz bio.
Incidentally, cahn, neither Nancy Goldstone nor Jude Morgan consider C1 a role model for monarchs. Henrietta Maria and Tim Blanning remain the sole people I've heard of who do.
Reading further on, I ran into more C2 dragging:
[The Stuarts] managed to blunder through one reign, only to be sent on their travels again when an even more stupid younger brother squandered the last remnants of goodwill.
He's not shy about his opinions.