18th-Century Characters, Including Frederick the Great, Discussion Post 37

[cahn]

More diaries of our favorite 18th-century Prussian diary-keeper have been unearthed and have been synopsized!

January 18th: Blessed be thou to me! Under your light, my Prince Heinrich was born!

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Re: Heinrich

[cahn]

That makes sense! (And wow, yes to that extra training in keeping a volatile personality happy.) But also I could see there being some a priori element to their character as well. (Says the person who has one child who was able to act much more intrinsically charmingly than the other as even a very small child...)

That's a great point about Fontane <3

and he imagines a potential historical novel showing the arrival of Heinrich's favourite nephew Louis on a visit and Heinrich beaming at him

I love this idea!

the "last beam of the setting sun warming Heinrich" phrasing is as explicit as you can geet as a 19th century Prussian writer under censorship.

Aww, I remembered this phrasing, but not where it had come from. That's so sweet, it's making me smile :D