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

Trenck

[mildred_of_midgard]

So here I am, innocently going through the Prussian secret state archives website, trying to figure out how to order stuff (in hopes prinzsorgenfrei will read it to us), and what do I find but Prussian Trenck being over-the-top again.

Here is an entry called "Trenck'sche Blutbibel" (Trenck's Blood-Bible), described as "Während seiner Festungshaft in Magdeburg mit eigenem Blut geschriebener Lebensbericht des Freiherrn v.d. Trenck über die Zeit von 1744-1754, selbst gemalte Bilder und eigene Gedichte", i.e. "Curriculum vitae of the Baron von der Trenck from the time 1744-1754, self-made pictures, and his own poems, written during his imprisonment in Magdeburg with his own blood."

...Yeah.

If you click on "Akte einsehen", you can see the whole thing digitized, with the reddish-brown, sometimes pink, writing in the margins and on blank pages. (But also sometimes black, which makes me wonder if all the writing is Trenck's or some of it is by other owners?)

On pages 4 and 7, there's a table of contents. I can't read all of it, but I definitely see that item 3 says "Letter to Her Royal Highness the Princess Amalia", and her name shows up again in item 5.

I have so many questions!

We didn't know about his blood Bible before, right? I have no memory of it, and searching for "Trenck" and "blood" through my notification emails isn't giving me anything.

Re: Trenck

[selenak]

Briefly, as I'm with the APs and have to sign Christmas mail like mad:

1.) It's been years, but I think I recall from Volz that Trenck's letter to Amalie went in tandem with letters to EC, Luise etc., i.e. various female members of the royal family in the hope they'd help and intercede on his behalf; this was one of Volz' arguments against a Trenck/Amalie relationship, in fact, since the one to her was not different to the ones to the others.

2.) Blood bible: I don't recall right now, alas. Only cups and carvings made by him.