Yes indeed, that was her favorite, for that reason, and that's why the palace in Schönhausen has it.
Even Denis Diderot was sure that Frederick the Great had not touched a single woman and did not sleep with his wife.
Diderot, who went out of his way NOT to meet Fritz, ever, and presumably didn't even know EC's name? I'd be very surprised if his intel on Fritz' sex life was based on more than Voltaire's pamphlets. Young Münchow would like to protest that there was marital sex in Rheinsberg, he wrote a letter to the papers including this intel, and he was there as a page, while Diderot was not. Manteuffel adds that while Fritz reminds him of Hadrian, and in retrospect the prostitutes didn't report anything of interest, he's pretty sure there were some (female) prostitutes, since La Chetardie bribed them first.
This essay writer sounds like a soulmate of Burgdorf of "Die Liebe des Königs war tödlich" fame, alright. This said, the Algarotti and Fredersdorf essays sound like they're worth checking out.
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Re: Fritz's nose
Date: 2023-02-05 04:44 pm (UTC)Even Denis Diderot was sure that Frederick the Great had not touched a single woman and did not sleep with his wife.
Diderot, who went out of his way NOT to meet Fritz, ever, and presumably didn't even know EC's name? I'd be very surprised if his intel on Fritz' sex life was based on more than Voltaire's pamphlets. Young Münchow would like to protest that there was marital sex in Rheinsberg, he wrote a letter to the papers including this intel, and he was there as a page, while Diderot was not. Manteuffel adds that while Fritz reminds him of Hadrian, and in retrospect the prostitutes didn't report anything of interest, he's pretty sure there were some (female) prostitutes, since La Chetardie bribed them first.
This essay writer sounds like a soulmate of Burgdorf of "Die Liebe des Königs war tödlich" fame, alright. This said, the Algarotti and Fredersdorf essays sound like they're worth checking out.