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birthday guy soon

#fritz #le roi des bulgares #fritztaire #frederick the great #marquis d’argens #michael gabriel fredersdorf #friedrich wilhelm von seydlitz #Voltaire

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come back from the dead here to say I’ve just discovered that Fredersdorf was the last of the seven children of Jochim and Anna Christiane Fredersdorf. The dad was a “Kunstpfeifer”

edit: after some research.. Kunstpfeifer is like a professional city/travelling musician??

from Dirk Fahlenkamp’s 2015 book Du hast gros recht, die Docters seindt große Idioten: Die unglaubliche Geschichte von Friedrich dem Großem und seinem Kammerdiener Fredersdorf ❤️❤️❤️

#he's the youngest kid #aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa #michael gabriel fredersdorf #nice baby name btw

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... je suis bien loin de me repentir d’avoir tout quitté pour lui. En vérité, madame, Votre Altesse royale devrait bien l’avertir dans quelqu’une de ses lettres qu’il me tourne la tête. Il m’inspire plus d’enthousiasme que le fanatisme n’en donne aux dévots. Mais je ne lui en dis mot, et il ne sait pas tout mon secret. (Voltaire to Wilhelmine, may 1752)

revisiting the classic

#to be fair the fact that he spent so much ink explaining why he likes fritz #kinda means that he wasn't sure if he's convinced others... or even himself #fritztaire

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Anton Graff (~1780) Miniature portrait of Friedrich II, gouache

#fritz #uwu

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Voltaire can't claim to be s republican when he literally sucked a king's dick. Citizen royal bedfellow over here. Sir, you were literally inside a tyrant

#crying #what is this pic from? #fritztaire #biche checking on her master's mental stability

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two more, plus some that didn’t make into the final product

some illustrations done earlier this year to accompany my chinese translation of Henri de Catt’s memoirs!

put the pdf (just the book itself, not including these pics) on gumroad for free! https://peanutmg.gumroad.com/l/decattmemoires

ive also made a searchable index of people & place names (primarily as a reference for the chinese text, but has some other info like wikipedia & google maps links as well). link to the list is in the gumroad page’s description section!

#i swear adding images on tumblr desktop is so broken #Frederick the Great #le roi des bulgares

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some illustrations done earlier this year to accompany my chinese translation of Henri de Catt’s memoirs!

put the pdf (just the book itself, not including these pics) on gumroad for free! https://peanutmg.gumroad.com/l/decattmemoires

ive also made a searchable index of people & place names (primarily as a reference for the chinese text, but has some other info like wikipedia & google maps links as well). link to the list is in the gumroad page’s description section!

#Frederick the Great #le roi des bulgares

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#le roi des bulgares #frederick the great #school has been kicking my ass

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#fritz #i have no words

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Voltaire places!

Les Délices

Ferney

Mon repos in Lausanne (dunno if his own house Monrion still exists or not?)

Colmar, Madame Goll's house (there's a realtor company called Voltaire Immobilier in here........)

Gasthaus Zum Goldenen Löwen in Frankfurt am Main. the building doesn't exist today but some 18th-century decor still remains (x)

#voltaire

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"O my kind and firm and gay and firm and profound philosopher, you must fuck the ladies and respect them."

— Voltaire to Jean Le Rond d’Alembert, 20 June 1760

#him #voltaire #d’alembert

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Frederick wanted to fuck Voltaire so bad it made him look stupid

"You wanna fuck me so bad it makes you look stupid"

— Voltaire to Frederick the Great, circa 1752

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#fritztaire #le roi des bulgares

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Ferney & Les Délices ! sadly they don't do a single person tour at les délices and i missed the monthly public tour 🤧 what luck

Ferney was AMAZING though, the view is spectacular and the château beautifully maintained !

left a smol V in the guestbook lmao

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judge a book by over time! which fritz's bio have the best cover in your opinion?

Oooh, interesting question! I love book covers :DD

There are quite a few to choose from... Let's start with classic portrait covers!

I have a bit of a soft spot for the painting used for the Venohr bio even though I have massive problems with Venohr himself (he of Vagina Letter Fame...). I don't own that one. I have seen one version of this portrait though, it's in a palace close to me :DD And Fritz has a massive ass in it. The other two books I do have and the textured paper used for the Luh cover somehow makes it work despite not looking like much here. Love how the fonts used in those two are somehow extremely Of Their Time. For Blanning I definitely prefer this version of the cover over the one with the yellow-ish bust on a black background. It's a nice colour, it looks good on the shelf and showing half his face makes it look like they did a bit more than just copy paste the portrait, idk. I like it. Overall I like it when covers use any portrait but the Graff one or the super angular Old Fritz of the 19th century.

Non-Portrait Covers!

I do not have that version of the Mitford bio, I have a very ugly German version by Fischer publishing. It is very yellow and has the Graff portrait on it (it is also abridged... but it was cheap). I like the idea of using the little figurine for the cover, it's a very recognizable silhouette and I feel like it somehow works with Mitford's style of narration, if that makes sense? :'D For the Duffy one... I just really like paintings, what can I say? I feel like the placement and font choice of the title could have been done better though.

I'd like to see more creative covers for biographies... Feel free to add any that you like, these are just ones I remembered off the top of my head ^^

While we're on the subject of covers: Shoutout to Krockow and his publisher for this thing

Making Friech look like the villain of the show is absolutely the right vibe for a double bio with Henri, but why would you choose THIS portrait out of all available portraits of Henri? This is the actor playing Henri in a hollywood biopic...

#Blanning one 《3

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early fritztaire shipper

 (Palissot, Le génie de Voltaire : apprécié dans tous ses ouvrages, 1806)

#fritztaire

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bony nightmare

#le roi des bulgares #Voltaire