I'm glad you provided the translation, because while it's reasonable enough French that my French is sufficient to be able to translate it, I would have been like, "uhhhh I must be missing someting?" Because this man spoke to me?? Is this an idiom for "insult" that I don't know about?
Yeah, I had to read it more than once to make sure I wasn't missing something! It does run over the end of a page, and the margin is slightly cut off, so it's possible some very short word is missing? Because I would expect "because of the way this man spoke to me" or "because this man spoke to me evilly" or something.
But I also don't see what could fit into the margin that would make grammatical and semantic sense here. I gave you what I see on the page and did my best to make sense of it!
Also, for what it's worth, the reason I put "[have]" at the end of Fritz's quote is that the French makes even less sense, and must be missing something! So it's also possible Poyntz just made a mistake when switching from the end of one line to the beginning of the next...we saw something like that (or at least that's what I think is going on) in the Fredersdorf letters, where Selena confirmed it makes no sense as stands.
I think sometimes people have memory lapses when they get to the end of a line on a page and have to pause to transition to the beginning of the next line at the far opposite side of the page.
It would be interesting to see if anyone knew what Keith said Fresia said, if anything.
Yeah, I started looking into the Austrian archives today. :P They're quite a bit more expensive than the German ones, but not as bad as the French, so maybe I can make something work out just this once. For such a DRAMATIC cause, you know. ;)
I also started checking out the British archives just now to see if I could find the extra detailed account Poyntz mentions, but of course the online catalogue is down.
Also, I told my wife this story when we chatted today, about how the story going around in Italy has a poor Italian guy lying helpless on the ground while some Prussian madman attacks him for no reason at all, and she was like, "Suuuurrre." She's with me on the possible bias of the account here. ;)
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Re: A duel for science...or insanity??
Date: 2025-06-01 02:55 am (UTC)I'm glad you provided the translation, because while it's reasonable enough French that my French is sufficient to be able to translate it, I would have been like, "uhhhh I must be missing someting?" Because this man spoke to me?? Is this an idiom for "insult" that I don't know about?
Yeah, I had to read it more than once to make sure I wasn't missing something! It does run over the end of a page, and the margin is slightly cut off, so it's possible some very short word is missing? Because I would expect "because of the way this man spoke to me" or "because this man spoke to me evilly" or something.
But I also don't see what could fit into the margin that would make grammatical and semantic sense here. I gave you what I see on the page and did my best to make sense of it!
Also, for what it's worth, the reason I put "[have]" at the end of Fritz's quote is that the French makes even less sense, and must be missing something! So it's also possible Poyntz just made a mistake when switching from the end of one line to the beginning of the next...we saw something like that (or at least that's what I think is going on) in the Fredersdorf letters, where Selena confirmed it makes no sense as stands.
I think sometimes people have memory lapses when they get to the end of a line on a page and have to pause to transition to the beginning of the next line at the far opposite side of the page.
It would be interesting to see if anyone knew what Keith said Fresia said, if anything.
Yeah, I started looking into the Austrian archives today. :P They're quite a bit more expensive than the German ones, but not as bad as the French, so maybe I can make something work out just this once. For such a DRAMATIC cause, you know. ;)
I also started checking out the British archives just now to see if I could find the extra detailed account Poyntz mentions, but of course the online catalogue is down.
Also, I told my wife this story when we chatted today, about how the story going around in Italy has a poor Italian guy lying helpless on the ground while some Prussian madman attacks him for no reason at all, and she was like, "Suuuurrre." She's with me on the possible bias of the account here. ;)