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

Less interesting diaries

[mildred_of_midgard]

Fritz kept the world's most boring diary during the Rhine campaign in 1734. It's only 10 pages long, it only keeps a shorthand record of external events, no mention of Frederick's thoughts or feelings, and Koser says it doesn't tell us anything we didn't already know from other sources.

Therefore, I have not bothered translating the French or even picking my way through it except to confirm that it looks as boring as Koser says it is.

Furthermore, for those of us salon detectives and writers of fanfic who like knowing where Fritz was on any given day, there's a 1732-1740 equivalent of Rödenbeck's Tageskalender, by Droysen. It largely consists of saying he was at Ruppin, or later alternating between Ruppin and Rheinsberg. But it's there, if you need to know when he had to go to Berlin or Wusterhausen for his sins. ;)