Historical Characters, Including Frederick the Great, Discussion Post 48

[cahn]

Some awesome historical RPF candyheartsex stories for meeeeee (or by me, in one tiny case) with historical characters! I'm just going to note whom the stories are about here. They are all so good!!

Anne Boleyn/Catherine of Aragorn
Frances Howard and Frances Coke (or: James I's court was basically a HOTBED of scandal, omg)

And two that are also historical RPF but also consistent with the Jude Morgan novel The King's Touch, which is an excellent historical novel narrated by James ("Jemmy") Scott, Duke of Monmouth, Charles II's illegitimate son.

Princess Henrietta of England (Charles II's sister and wife of Philippe I duc d'Orleans)
James of Monmouth/William/Mary

Comments

Re: Leining to Fredersdorf: Letter 3, take 2

[felis]

Ha, you included the Gartz for the lieutenant and inadvertently gave me the "tz" solution for the merchant's name! Because I think that's supposed be "Gotzkowsky". Wrongly spelled. Might be this guy? Doesn't say anything about wine here, but maybe he got a connection that one time or something.

As for the lieutenant, yeah, that's very different. I just don't see what "St" would refer to (ETA: which is to say, it seems weird to me that he'd write Saint-Michel that way), although it could be a name abbreviation of course. Still, weird.

Re: Leining to Fredersdorf: Letter 3, take 2

[mildred_of_midgard]

Felis, you are a genius! \o/ I am totally willing to believe it's Gotzkowsky! That guy or one of his relatives. I mean, family members often went into similar trades, so there could be multiple merchants. The wine merchant probably being less famous than the art merchant and therefore not worthy of a Wikipedia article. Of course, it also says he engaged in speculation in different products during the war, like grain, so it could still be the same individual.

Everybody, Felis is a genius!

As for the lieutenant, yeah, that's very different. I just don't see what "St" would refer to, although it could be a name abbreviation of course. Still, weird.

I was assuming it was Saint-Michel, but yeah, that's more of a place name than a person's name. Oh, well!

Re: Leining to Fredersdorf: Letter 3, take 2

[mildred_of_midgard]

Oh, and I just found his word-initial 'S' in the Latin script:



which matches the first character in



which gives me increasing confidence that that says "St Michel" and not "Lt Michel".

Re: Leining to Fredersdorf: Letter 3, take 2

[felis]

Yeah, okay. Which means now I'm questioning whether the t doesn't much rather look like an F. ;) (There was a French sculptor with those initials - Sigisbert Francois Michel - who became head sculptor for Fritz after the war, but that's maybe too tenuous a connection.)

Re: Leining to Fredersdorf: Letter 3, take 2

[mildred_of_midgard]

Hmm! Looking closely, I'm in agreement that that's the same general shape as his 'f', more than his 't', though I don't have an exact comparison (where the 't' or 'f' is neither initial, nor joined to any adjacent characters, before or after).

However, I feel like, whereas Sigisbert Francois might well have signed his *own* name "SF Michel", writing someone *else*'s name as "SF Michel" is weird. I'd expect "Mr. Michel".

In short, I'm not convinced, but I am contemplating it. :)