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: Lehndorff

[mildred_of_midgard]

I see you're reading Lehndorff Volume 2, then, from the quotes. :)

Yep, because I own volume 1 in the Font Not of Doom, so if I'm going to practice, it should be on something where I have no other option than Font of Doom. And I wanted something with simple prose, so instead of focusing on vocabulary and grammar, I can focus on "Is this a capital V or a capital B?" (SMH.)

A Hans Dampf in allen Gassen is a Jack of all trades, master of none.

Aha, thank you!

Though who knows which expression Lehndorff uses in the French original, it's always worth recalling this is an early 20th century translation into German unless the spelling suddenly changes and we get an original German sentence thrown in between French text.

Yep, I've been keeping that in mind as I read.

No idea, but didn't AW do this in some masque, too?

Yes, and cross-dressing during balls was normal in Berlin and St. Petersburg (and perhaps other courts), but this made it sound like he was randomly cross-dressing during everyday life, while traveling! (I know women did this when they could get away with it, but the ones I'm aware of usually had a specific reason.)

ETA: forget it, I just recalled Heinrich’s diary-keeping, Kalkreuth-loathing sidekick from the 7 Years War, who this most likely is./ETA

Yeah, that's what I was assuming.

Charlotte Pangels reads this in the 1970s and somehow still arrives at the conclusion that Lehndorff was in love with Amalie

If this is love, it must be metaphysical. :P