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

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

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From:

selenak

Meanwhile, Ferdinand always showed Fritz friendship. :) (That also will never be not hilarious.) Somehow, however, this estimation from the Einzigen König or rather from his early 1750s last will didn't make it into Koser's description of the siblings.

From:

mildred_of_midgard

I can't imagine why not. :P

From:

selenak

re: Koser, I seem to recall the remark about Heinrich's coldness is in a context where he says that Wilhelmine and Heinrich were the people closest to Fritz during the 7 Years War (until her death, obviously) and that Heinrich was dutiful, if made of "coarser" material than the other two and in his cold automaton way not able to have passionate sibling feelings. This irresistably reminds me of Fritz working himself into a frenzy of anxiety before Wilhelmine's death and pleading to Heinrich to give him good news about her because no one is as close as siblings who grew up with each other and he needs to hear she's fine... which is all very touching until you recall Heinrich gets that letter a few months after AW's death and the "take it like a stoic" consolation letter from Fritz on the subject.

Aaanyway. Frederician fandom really is like any other fandom, where only the emotions of your character(s) of choice are real.

From:

mildred_of_midgard

Let's not forgot when Voltaire was devastated over Émilie's death, and Fritz wrote that he was being so over-the-top that he must be exaggerating. Fast forward almost ten years, and it's all, "All Europe must grieve Wilhelmine with me!"