From Paul Barz, author of a Struensee bio and believer that FS is French, comes an unsourced "hot or not" report on Fritz that surprisingly comes down on the side of "hot"!
A young man, just twenty-eight years old, comes out of the historical semi-darkness, with a bright blue-grey gaze on his pretty, girlish face. His overly slender appearance enchants both women and men, one of whom sighs at the sight of him: "I could not have failed to fall in love with him if I had been of a different sex..."
Now, first of all, all the paintings and eyewitness descriptions that I'm aware of, and I believe his own words, have him plump at this stage, not overly slender. And the pretty, girlish face that enchants everyone is news to me. He has beautiful eyes, but that's it!
I'm definitely going to have to track down a better Struensee bio at some point, but in the meantime this one makes up in entertainment what it lacks in accuracy, and is good German practice.
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Re: Fritz's nose
Date: 2023-02-06 01:55 am (UTC)A young man, just twenty-eight years old, comes out of the historical semi-darkness, with a bright blue-grey gaze on his pretty, girlish face. His overly slender appearance enchants both women and men, one of whom sighs at the sight of him: "I could not have failed to fall in love with him if I had been of a different sex..."
Now, first of all, all the paintings and eyewitness descriptions that I'm aware of, and I believe his own words, have him plump at this stage, not overly slender. And the pretty, girlish face that enchants everyone is news to me. He has beautiful eyes, but that's it!
I'm definitely going to have to track down a better Struensee bio at some point, but in the meantime this one makes up in entertainment what it lacks in accuracy, and is good German practice.