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cahnMore 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!
January 18th: Blessed be thou to me! Under your light, my Prince Heinrich was born!
Re: Cunegonde's Kidnapping - Kidnapping, Trial, and Religious War
Date: 2022-09-01 02:03 pm (UTC)Speaking as the granddaughter of a Catholic from Aachen (that's Aix-La-Chapelle, btw,
If this visit of Amalie's is the one directly after the 7 Years War, it ought to be also the one where she met the travelling Mozarts (and liked Wolferl and Nannerl just fine, but, as a disapproving Leopold noticed, wasn't generous with the cash). ("If I had a gold piece for every kiss...") If it was, it might be worth checking Leopold's correspondence for mentions of this mini religious war, because as a staunch Catholic, he's bound to have An Opinion on this.
(Note that Wolfgang was in Paris, trying in vain to make it as a young man where he's been feted as a miracle child, when Voltaire died, and wrote home to Dad an "yay, that bastard Voltaire is dead and burns in hell!" letter. Just as an example of how Catholic the Mozarts were, free masons or not.)
Re: how "taking the waters" got its reputation, methinks you're onto something.
Re: Cunegonde's Kidnapping - Kidnapping, Trial, and Religious War
Date: 2022-09-02 05:13 am (UTC)Oh wow, that would be interesting if Leopold had something about it. (Would it be in the book?)
(Note that Wolfgang was in Paris, trying in vain to make it as a young man where he's been feted as a miracle child, when Voltaire died, and wrote home to Dad an "yay, that bastard Voltaire is dead and burns in hell!" letter. Just as an example of how Catholic the Mozarts were, free masons or not.)
Oh, that's interesting!
Re: Cunegonde's Kidnapping - Kidnapping, Trial, and Religious War
Date: 2022-09-02 05:37 pm (UTC)Oh, neat! I knew this story would be of interest to
All the kidnappings at the start remind me of the event where some of FW's troops were either in the process of returning with their volunteer when assaulted by a mob or lording with their gang-pressed victim which was liberated by the people, depending whom you believe, also at the Dutch border, I think.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure this also happened at the Hanoverian border, the Saxon border, the Danish border, the Mecklenburg border if I'm not mistaken, and probably several others. FW's foreign policy was to keep the diplomats busy over his recruiting practices. :P
If it was, it might be worth checking Leopold's correspondence for mentions of this mini religious war, because as a staunch Catholic, he's bound to have An Opinion on this.
Ooh, nice connection! Yeah, there might be something interesting there.
* The only story I have about religion in that marriage is that the kids were supposed to be raised Catholic, and my loosely Protestant grandmother was fine with that...until one day a Catholic priest told her she should have as many kids as possible, because God could always take away the ones she had. Now, my grandparents were committed to only having the 2 kids they could afford on their income. Outraged, my grandmother said she was never taking the kids to a Catholic church again. To which my grandfather's response was, "If they're not going a Catholic church, they're not going to any church." And that is the story of how churchgoing in my family died a generation and a half back. ;)