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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Trivia Question: Re: Prince Eugene, Life of,

[selenak]

Guys, this being post reveal time for the main Yuletide, I can ask you something which Mildred's comment to my story made me wonder. The comment in question:

Fritz, we've read your letters demanding copies of the life of Prince Eugene!!

We have indeed. My question is - do you think FW's people did, and if so, what did they make of Fritz requesting multiple copies? And what did FW think, provided one of them showed him such a letter? "At last, the boy shows interest in a military man, but did it have to be a Catholic?" Or did he/they figure out what those requests were code for?

Re: Trivia Question: Re: Prince Eugene, Life of,

[mildred_of_midgard]

Ooh, this is a really good question!

I think that if FW had seen and figured out the code, we would know about it by now. I could be wrong! But I feel like it would have come up.

So either:

a) These letters never got intercepted.

b) The letters got intercepted, but whoever read them went, "Wow, this book is a bestseller!" (Remember, Fritz wants copies *for all his friends*; read: creditors.

c) The letters got intercepted, but whoever read them went, "Oh, thank god for plausible deniability, I'm going to pretend I think this is a book, because he could become king at any moment."

Re: Trivia Question: Re: Prince Eugene, Life of,

[selenak]

:) My money is on a mixture of b) and c), because there was such a lot of surveillance going on!

Re: Trivia Question: Re: Prince Eugene, Life of,

[mildred_of_midgard]

Makes sense to me!