Historical Characters, Including Frederick the Great, Discussion Post 40

[cahn]

I'm trying to use my other account at least occasionally so I posted about my Yuletide gifts there, including the salon-relevant 12k fic that features Fritz, Heinrich, Voltaire, Fredersdorf, Saint Germain, Caroline Daum (Fredersdorf's wife), and Groundhog Day tropes! (Don't need to know canon.)

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Re: Pop Quiz opportunity for Fredericians

[mildred_of_midgard]

Katte's execution, which, in fairness, is a mistake Tim Blanning also makes.

Several authors make it! I was looking through a bunch of biographies for "who says what about Fritz and the candles?", and I was surprised at how many axes there were at Katte's execution. All fanfic writers are hereby forgiven.

Btw, I never did find the "it was his jailer" anecdote in any of those bios, just the Fouquet story. And that's weird, because the "it was his jailer" story is the one I remember recounting to other people before salon! Selena or Felis, do remember where you've run into this story in the past, and if so, which version? I'm not promising to write an academic essay on our findings, but I'm not promising *not* to, either. ;)

BTW, the fact that he and Fritz were caught fooling around is stated as fact instead of "maybe?" is of course another issue

We decided they weren't caught fooling around, though, remember? It turned out FW received an anonymous letter that tipped him off to Fritz's escape attempt plans. I mean, we don't *know* they weren't also caught, but we do know there was the anonymous letter at the time and that FW acted quickly. And that made a lot more sense psychologically of how FW reacted (we really thought it was an underreaction for the sin of sodomy).