Historical Characters, Including Frederick the Great, Discussion Post 40

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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: Voltaire: The Age of Louis XIV: 3

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Note "for some time" and "tolerable poet". It's a mostly approving description of Leibniz, with nothing of the partisanship of when he and Émilie were argueing about him, but Voltaire still manages to make Leibniz sound like the lesser man compared to Newton.

Heh, yes, that's rather amazing. "So good a mathematician as to dispute with the great Newton," lolololol forever.

Voltaire: I didn't include nearly as much porn as Procopius does.

Well, that's true. In fact there are fewer compromising situations than there were in real life! (Though I'm mostly thinking here of Voltaire/Mme Denis, not Voltaire/Fritz.)

whereas I dare anyone not to admit that my presentations of my Prussian Alcina, be they in my edited letters or in my memoirs or in my pamphlets, do always also include a degree of admiration.

Hee. Indeed this is true!