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: More Isabella of Parma

[mildred_of_midgard]

Anyone with such a lot of Bourbon and some Habsburg genes (let's not forget the Louis XIV married his first cousin twice over and reproduced with her) has a dicy genetic lottery, that's true enough.

Or that Isabella's parents, Louise-Elisabeth and Don Philip, were first cousins once removed. And they wanted to marry her to her (half-)uncle!

Huh, I was familiar with that Mozart anecdote and in fact quoted it in a recent post, but it hadn't occured to me that Leopold doesn't say anything about whether or not Isabella was good, mediocre or bad on the violin.

Yeah, I recognized the anecdote from you, but didn't remember Isabella's playing, nor, like you, had I considered that there was a missed opportunity for commentary!

Perhaps he wanted to be discreet in case his letters were read by people not his friend?

Perhaps, or perhaps it's like he said, he was pressed for time, and he felt if he started getting into detail then he wouldn't be able to stop. (Ahem, I know the feeling.)

Awww. I do remember MT as the one who had Isabella's letters searched and the Mimi ones confiscated, but I hadn't known this had been on MC's request.

Well, we don't *know* it, but it's Tamussino's guess. In fact, I put it a little too strongly: I wrote "it seems" thinking that it was the author's deduction, but upon rereading, it was just her speculation. So...MC *may have* been the one who requested her own letters back (a not uncommon thing for people to do when someone dies).

We do know MC carried all the Isabella papers in her possession around all her life, though. (At least if I'm remembering correctly, but I think so.)