This is a truly nasty threat. Because that's what FW did to Doris Ritter.
Ohhhhh. Right. Ouch.
but I do find it interesting that he phrases it as ""took fright, and made a very un-soldier-like retreat", because I think you suspected the first to hint (by joking how far Fritz got before the news of the Prussian victory reached him) that Fritz left the battlefield because he was afraid was Voltaire. If the merchant's report predates the publication of Voltaire's memoirs, it was Tido Knyphausen!
Oh cool! Maybe Voltaire read Tido's satire?
(FW is only a year dead, less than a year, and his voice, commmenting HE always knew Wretched Son didn't have what it takes as a soldier, must have been especially loud in Fritz' head.)
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Re: A Knyphausen satire - Part 2
Date: 2025-01-15 05:56 am (UTC)Ohhhhh. Right. Ouch.
but I do find it interesting that he phrases it as ""took fright, and made a very un-soldier-like retreat", because I think you suspected the first to hint (by joking how far Fritz got before the news of the Prussian victory reached him) that Fritz left the battlefield because he was afraid was Voltaire. If the merchant's report predates the publication of Voltaire's memoirs, it was Tido Knyphausen!
Oh cool! Maybe Voltaire read Tido's satire?
(FW is only a year dead, less than a year, and his voice, commmenting HE always knew Wretched Son didn't have what it takes as a soldier, must have been especially loud in Fritz' head.)
Ouch. :(