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:
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:
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.
Re: Secret library
Date: 2022-11-19 06:16 am (UTC)Re: Secret library
Date: 2022-11-19 09:58 am (UTC)Anyway! To answer your question, you're in luck, because fortunately for salon (unfortunately for Fritz), Katte included this exact information in his plea bargain: "in des H. Hofrath Peinen Hause gegen das Schloss."
In the house of Herr Councilor Peinen, opposite the palace.
Now, I was hoping to be able to give you more details on where this was! Alas, the Berlin address book for 1730 says that Hr. Julius von Pehnen, secret finance, war, domain, and also school councillor is living "auf der Freiheit" (
So who was this Julius von Pehnen (also spelled Peinen, Pehne, Pehen, and Pechen, just to keep things interesting) and what happened to him after Fritz's secret library turned up in his possession? Guy-Dickens says a French sexton was banished for taking care of Fritz's library, but nothing about this guy?
His son Theodor Julius is more famous, unfortunately. I find Pehne Sr. dying August 13, 1731, but little else (aside from a few hits saying Fritz kept his library in his house). Given the timing, could he have died while imprisoned? Maybe!
Oh, interesting. One (non-contemporaneous) source says the house Fritz put his books in was *rented*. If Pehne was living in a different house and renting out this one (which makes sense of Cahn's question about where they found the space!), he could potentially claim that he had no idea that this was the Prince's illicit library, it was all a middleman who had deceived him!
Anyway, I will keep an eye out for this guy!
Re: Secret library
Date: 2022-11-22 05:54 am (UTC)Re: Secret library
Date: 2022-11-24 04:06 pm (UTC)Re: Secret library
Date: 2022-11-24 04:27 pm (UTC)