18th-Century Characters, Including Frederick the Great, Discussion Post 38

[cahn]

Gonna go ahead and make this post even though Yuletide is coming...

But in the meantime, there has been some fic in the fandom posted!

Holding His Space (2503 words) by felisnocturna
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: 18th Century CE RPF, 18th Century CE Frederician RPF
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Michael Gabriel Fredersdorf/Friedrich II von Preußen | Frederick the Great
Characters: Michael Gabriel Fredersdorf, Friedrich II von Preußen | Frederick the Great
Additional Tags: Protectiveness, Domestic, Character Study
Summary:

Five times Fredersdorf has to stay behind - and one time Friedrich doesn't leave.

Using People (3392 words) by prinzsorgenfrei
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: 18th Century CE RPF
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Friedrich II von Preußen | Frederick the Great/Hans Hermann von Katte
Characters: Friedrich II von Preußen | Frederick the Great, Hans Hermann von Katte
Additional Tags: Fluff, Idiots in Love, reading plays aloud while gazing into each others eyes
Summary:

Friedrich had started to talk to him because he had thought of him as a bit of a ditz.
And now here he was. Here he was months later, bundled up in this very same man’s blankets with a cup of hot coffee in front of him, its scent mixing with that of Katte’s French perfume.
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Fluffy One Shot about one traitorous Crown Prince and the sycophant he accidentally fell for.

Comments

Six Degrees

[mildred_of_midgard]

Not Algarotti per se, but I found another cool connection as I pick my way slowly through Hinrichs and Fahlenkamp.

A couple days ago, I found Fredersdorf writing to Fritz in 1748 that "Splittgerber" has said that if certain ships are ready in time, the antique statues can be in Hamburg by such-and-such a date. Fahlenkamp notes that the firm "Splittgerber & Daum" was at the time the most significant bank- and trading-house in Berlin, later in all Prussia. Fredersdorf would later marry Daum's redoubtable daughter, whom we know so well.

Then today, reading in the 1730 escape attempt trial protocols as collected by Hinrichs, where Katte is giving testimony about where he borrowed money from to lend to Fritz, I find that one of his sources was "Splitgerber and Daum"!

A neat and accidental find. (I searched our old posts, and this doesn't appear to have come up before, so I mention it now.)

Re: Six Degrees

[cahn]

Oh cool!

Re: Six Degrees

[selenak]

That is a neat find! Mind you, I can't help but recall that according to Achim von Arnim, FW was friends with Daum (the "all women are whores!" "But my wife, your majesty!" "Okay, all women are whores except for our wives" story). Given that FW had issued a "no money to Prussian princes!" decree, I assume Katte took the loan on his own name rather than that of Fritz, and because he was the son of super rich Hans Heinrich and the grandson of rolling in money Grandpa Wartensleben, he got the cash?

Re: Six Degrees

[mildred_of_midgard]

Yep, that decree comes up in the questioning:

Q. If he had not loaned the Crown Prince money.
A: Yes, before the Saxon trip [Zeithain, cahn], before the flight was thought up, 1000 thalers, which His Highness said was for another reason, to repay his debts.
To the question "Why he had loaned money contrary to the edict?" he wasn't able to answer anything except that His Highness promised he would give it back.*
Q. Where he got the money from?
A. 100 ducats from Splitgerber and Daum, 400 thalers from Major von Löben of the Kalkstein Regiment, both under the excuse of recruiting, the remainder he had had himself.

* Katte. That's what a loan *is*. :P