18th-Century Characters, Including Frederick the Great, Discussion Post 36

[cahn]

Starting a couple of comments earlier than usual to mention there are a couple of new salon fics! These probably both need canon knowledge.

felis ficlets on siblings!

Siblings (541 words) by felisnocturna
Chapters: 2/2
Fandom: 18th Century CE RPF
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Friedrich II von Preußen | Frederick the Great, Michael Gabriel Fredersdorf, August Wilhelm von Preußen | Augustus William of Prussia (1722-1758), Wilhelmine von Preußen | Wilhelmine of Prussia (1709-1758)
Summary:

Three Fills for the 2022 Three Sentence Ficathon.

Chapter One: Protective Action / Babysitting at Rheinsberg (Frederick/Fredersdorf, William+Henry+Ferdinand)
Chapter Two: Here Be Lions (Wilhelmine)

Unsent Letters fic by me:

Letters for a Dead King (1981 words) by raspberryhunter
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: 18th Century CE RPF
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Friedrich II von Preußen | Frederick the Great & Friedrich Heinrich Ludwig von Preußen (1726-1802)
Characters: Friedrich Heinrich Ludwig von Preußen | Henry of Prussia (1726-1802)
Additional Tags: Epistolary, Love/Hate, Talking To Dead People, Canonical Character Death, Dysfunctional Family
Summary:

Just because one's king and brother is dead doesn't mean one has to stop writing to him.

Comments

Re: 18th-century-related travel advice?

[cahn]

Oh, how fun! Sadly, I am not at all the best person to ask, but here are a couple of ideas, mostly Paris-centric, in no particular order:

-Place de la Concorde, for French Revolution feels
-I have not been to the Pantheon but it sounds cool (Louis XV)
-the Bastille maybe? Or La Conciergerie? (full disclosure: if I went to Paris I would probably not go to either of those places)
-when you visit Versailles, the Petit Trianon is Marie Antoinette's private palace and I am more curious about that now :)
-The Tuileries might also be interesting

For our particular guys Voltaire and Émilie, there's Cirey, but at 2 hrs 40 min away from Paris probably not worth it for you guys! Also apparently the statue of Voltaire is being cleaned or something??

selenak has an interesting post on an England trip, including a visit to the Royal Observatory and the Maritime Museum, so possibly she might weigh in on that. Actually her whole England tag is maybe worth looking at.

Re: 18th-century-related travel advice?

[selenak]

Psst, the Bastille doesn't exist anymore. There's an opera on roughly the place where it once stood, though.

Re: 18th-century-related travel advice?

[cahn]

Lol, whoops! I did know that, at least back when I actually knew things about the French Revolution :) I may have had the opera house in the back of my head, which I've watched at least one video from (you will be utterly not shocked to hear it was Don Carlos)

Re: 18th-century-related travel advice?

[luzula]

Thanks for the tips! Oh, and I am also considering the forest of Fontainebleau, for a completely separate interest of mine: there are areas of that forest which have been untouched by forestry for hundreds of years (because they were a game park), and it would be very interesting to see such a continental deciduous forest. Says the person who is also engaged in forest conservation. : )

Re: 18th-century-related travel advice?

[cahn]

I, uh, mostly know Fontainebleau as the setting of the first act of Verdi's Don Carlo(s). But that's really neat!
and sounds very interesting from an ecological point of view :)

Re: 18th-century-related travel advice?

[luzula]

Hee, we all have our different reference points. : )