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 Peter Keith findings

[mildred_of_midgard]

Another trivial finding! I have often speculated that maybe the "Sauvez-vous" note had something to do with *Fritz* sending the note, not knowing Peter had already escaped, and believing that his warning had triggered Peter's escape.

But if so, he had a faulty memory: even in his interrogation on September 16, he knew that Peter had escaped the same Sunday (August 6) that Fritz was trying to escape again from Mannheim, i.e. before things got bad enough that Fritz needed to send a note saying the jig was up. And that's leaving aside Fritz's reviewing of the archives in 1740.

That said, I myself, who pride myself on my memory for dates, have recounted a series of events, and then gone back to look at emails/DW posts, and found that some of my memories were off by a few days, and so the order was wrong. So it's still possible that later-in-life Fritz remembered sending a note in a panic to Peter, not yet knowing that Peter had made it, but later-in-life Fritz forgot the details of the chronology that were later revealed to him. (Honestly, it might have made him feel better to think that his note had something to do with one of his friends not being executed in front of him.)