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

Re: Valmont the Frederician Fan

[mildred_of_midgard]

Heee! That *is* nifty!

might feel gratified a contemporary novelist lists him with Turenne and Hannibal as a grand strategist in war.

I daresay!

Note that the Vicomte expects the Marquise to know who „Frederic“ was just as well a the other two.

Fritz: After Rossbach, they better know who I am! 1782 is peak "Old Fritz" celebrity years, too.

Me: I see you've managed the "impress the French" of Voltaire's "impress the French, mock the French, beat the French," Fritz.

Incidentally, Les Liasons Dangereuses was published in 1782, so he might have read the book (after all, it wasn‘t German literature)

Lol.

though I don‘t recall a reference to it anywhere.

Neither do I. Searching though his Trier correspondence just gets me this beautiful line from 1745, i.e. the War of the Austrian Succession, at a point when Saxony is allied with Austria:

je déclarais qu'aussitôt que la cour de Dresde renoncerait aux liaisons dangereuses qu'elle avait prises contre moi

Dangerous for whom, Fritz? For them? Definitely. That's why they'll remain neutral next time, only that won't do them any good either.