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cahnLast post, we had (among other things) Danish kings and their favorites; Louis XIV and Philippe d'Orléans; reviews of a very shippy book about Katte, a bad Jacobite novel, and a great book about clothing; a fic about Émilie du Châtelet and Voltaire; and a review of a set of entertaining Youtube history videos about Frederick the Great.
Re: Answers from the last post
Date: 2023-03-07 07:26 am (UTC)Federsdorf: I wouldn't, not for long. Confronted with a Fritz who keeps apologizing after lashing out, drinks like a fish and tells me I need to pay female prostitutes for letting him beat them up, and ignores Biche, I would immediately conclude we're dealing with an impostor, and convince enough people I'm right so we can arrest this person and force him to reveal what happened to his true Majesty - der einzige König!
Biche: Wuff!
Re: Answers from the last post
Date: 2023-03-08 02:49 am (UTC)again!Biche: Wuff!
Aw! And, hee!
Re: Answers from the last post
Date: 2023-03-08 07:57 am (UTC)Biche: I can't understand why in ye olden days, no one wrote a children's novel "The Adventures of Biche" which had her dognapped in the 2nd Silesian War, and added some adventures that had her saving Fritz, and of course the love affair with Folichon. :) (Though she must have cheated on him, given AW got to be godfather to her pups with Not!Folichon.)
Re: Answers from the last post
Date: 2023-03-10 09:56 pm (UTC)It would be interesting if there were multiple bodyswaps in the same story, because every time St. Germain tries to change something, something else goes wrong. "Whoops, wrong Friedrich." "Whoops, other self." Etc. Sort of like what happened in Prussian Doll (or the "nameless slave" in JS&MN), but with bodyswapping.
Admittedly, that would be a much more ambitious and harder story to write, just because of the different settings and different casts of characters.
Biche: I can't understand why in ye olden days, no one wrote a children's novel "The Adventures of Biche" which had her dognapped in the 2nd Silesian War
Aww, somebody should do that! Would read!
Re: Answers from the last post
Date: 2023-03-10 09:36 pm (UTC)Chronologically, though, it would be hard to get this exact scenario: Fritz becomes king in 1740 and invades Silesia almost immediately, Keyserlingk dies in 1745, Frederik V becomes king in 1746.
So either we have to fudge some dates, or else Fritz is going to be a crown prince with a Pietist father for 6 more years, or Frederik's going to land in a country that already has Silesia and no Keyserlingk.
I vote we kill Christian VI off in 1740. What's one more dead monarch that year, anyway?
Biche: Wuff!
Aww, Biche just wants her human back!