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Title: A vagabond courtier; from the memoirs and letters of Baron Charles Louis von Pöllnitz
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Pöllnitz, Karl Ludwig, Freiherr von, 1692-1775 Cuthell, Edith E
Subjects: Courts and courtiers Europe -- Social life and customs Prussia (Germany) -- History 1740-1815
Publisher: New York : Brentano's
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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He adressed the King as
'Emperor,' and called him the worshipper of Jesus
of the Sect of Nazareth. When Count Finck had
replied the envoy quickly mounted the throne, seized
the King's right arm, kissed his shoulder, and disappeared
like lightning from the hall.
" Pöllnitz accompanied the envoy with the same
ceremonial, when a banquet was given by the King."

Twenty-four persons were present, though Frederic
did not himself appear. Lehndorf sat next to Achmet—

" Who sent away the dishes prepared by the cooks
and ate dreadful things all made with honey and oil.
He was so pleased with the dessert that he had several
china dishes carried of!. When we rose from table his
suite plundered the dessert, which amused them very
much. Then he had coffee served, and acted the agree-
able host."

Achmet enjoyed himself so much at Berlin that he
lingered six months there. When he took his departur
ea great many young women tried to smuggle themselves
into his retinue in order to go to Turkey ; but the police
turned them all out.
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FREDERIC THE GREAT.

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CHAPTER VI

PÖLLNITZ survived the Peace of Hubertsburg twelve
years. Their chief record, as far as he himself is con-
cerned, is his voluminous correspondence with German
royalties and courtiers, and a series of chatty jocular
notes which Frederic indited to him. The latter show
the relations between the two men, the lifelong friend-
ship which, though never an intimacy, mellowed with
the years.
Frederic had the misfortune to survive nearly all his
contemporaries, his correspondents, his intimates. The
year of peace saw Algarotti die, in Italy, and Marquis
d'Argens retire to the Riviera. Some of his most brilliant
comrades-in-arms had fallen in the wars. But Marshal
Keith had returned, weary and bored in Aberdeen-
shire, to Sans Souci, to spend his last years there ;
Voltaire wrote often from the shores of Lac Leman,
and d'Alembert was enthroned in the chair of the
Academy.
Pöllnitz was still the impresario of the royal opera
and theatre—where Quantz, Graun, and Fasch made
music

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