18th-Century Characters, Including Frederick the Great, Discussion Post 33

[cahn]

And, I mean, it doesn't have to be just 18th century characters, either!

(also, waiting for Yuletide!)

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Re: Diderot, Catherine, and Fritz

[selenak]

Fritz: But Ulrike said I was wonderful at it!

And yes, I was thinking of good old Larkin, too. Re: Diderot going with Catherine as his enlightened despot of choice, yeah, I think it's a case of money, dear boy. (Though Catherine being less prone to confuse friendly banter with insults probably didn't hurt.) Also, Russia is far away and wasn't France's enemy in the 7 Years War. Now I have no idea whether this would have mattered to Diderot, you know him far better than I do. But Maupertuis definitely got trouble from fellow French philosophes for not resigning from his Academy President office when the war began, and Voltaire got bad press for his entire thing with Fritz as well, despite the Frankfurt scandal.