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Updated: May 22, 2025
Nothing new for us there; new only that it all lies five generations from us now. Did "the Old Pretender," who was then in his expectant period, in this same village of St. Germain, see it too, as Fassmann did? And Louis XIV., he is at Versailles; drooping fast, very dull to his Maintenon.
Wilt thou, Louisa? That the Princess answered Yea," says poor Fassmann with the tear in his eye, "may readily be supposed!" This surely is a very touching scene. But now listen to Wilhelmina's account of another on the same subject, between the same parties.
This is a fact, as the old Newspapers and confirmatory Fassmann more directly apprise us. Or in Friedrich's own jingle: "We arrived at Strasburg; and the Custom-house corsair, with his inspectors, seemed content with our evidences. These scoundrels spied us, With one eye reading our passport, With the other ogling our purse.
At the appointed time and place Gundling stands, accordingly, pistol in hand; but at sight of Fassmann, throws his pistol away; will not shoot any man, nor have any man shoot him. Was there ever seen such horse-play?
Germain, "which lasts from Candlemas to the Monday before Easter;" and Fassmann one day took a walk of contemplation through the same. Much noise, gesticulation, little meaning. Show-booths, temporary theatres, merry-andrews, sleight-of-hand men; and a vast public, drinking, dancing, gambling, flirting, as its wont is.
Friedrich made no loitering, to Dresden is but a hundred miles, one good day; he arrived there on the morrow after his Father; King "on the 14th January, 1728," dates Fassmann; "Crown-Prince on the 15th," which I find was Thursday.
Has, for the rest, a recognizable talent for "Magazine writing," for Newspaper editing, had that rich mine, "California of the Spiritually Vagabond," been opened in those days. Fassmann was by no means such a fool as Gundling; but, he was much of a fool too. By the King, on some wise General's recommending it, he was, as a preliminary, introduced to the Tabagie at least.
Fassmann, a fellow not without sarcasm and sharpness, as you may still see, has one evening provoked Gundling to the transcendent pitch, till words are weak, and only action will answer.
Here is the celebrated Gundling; there is the celebrated Fassmann. Positive Leyden-jar, with negative close by: in each of these two men lodges a full-charged fiery electric virtue of self-conceit; destructive each of the other; could a conductor be discovered.
Nothing could be more distinguished than the welcome of Duke Franz; and the things he saw and did, during his three weeks' visit, are wonderful to Fassmann and the extinct Gazetteers.
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