Everyone goes to Lapland
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rheinsbergAuthor: mildred_of_midgard, selenak
Original discussion: https://cahn.dreamwidth.org/164846.html?thread=1505774#cmt1505774, https://cahn.dreamwidth.org/177596.html?thread=2702524#cmt2702524
AU where [Fritz and Voltaire] elope to London or Lappland! Bonus points if they go to Lappland with Maupertuis and Algarotti. (Voltaire said he would go if he'd been invited, if it weren't so cold. And we know Fritz would go if Voltaire wanted to elope, so...AU!) Émilie can come too, and we can have love...polygons.
We could have a love chain-link with Maupertuis - Émilie - Voltaire - Fritz - Algarotti (and Lady Mary could show her dedication by stalking Algarotti to the Arctic!).
When Maupertuis is preparing his big expedition and invites Algarotti along, our otherwise dry author observes that she can't think of what Algarotti was supposed to contribute to the expedition, "except for his company", since he wasn't a geometer, a surveyor or a man of action who couldn't have helped with the hardcore travel parts. Ms Terrell, hot stuff Algarotti was clearly part of the intended entertainment for the Lappland nights!
mildred_of_midgard, selenakOriginal discussion: https://cahn.dreamwidth.org/164846.html?thread=1505774#cmt1505774, https://cahn.dreamwidth.org/177596.html?thread=2702524#cmt2702524
AU where [Fritz and Voltaire] elope to London or Lappland! Bonus points if they go to Lappland with Maupertuis and Algarotti. (Voltaire said he would go if he'd been invited, if it weren't so cold. And we know Fritz would go if Voltaire wanted to elope, so...AU!) Émilie can come too, and we can have love...polygons.
We could have a love chain-link with Maupertuis - Émilie - Voltaire - Fritz - Algarotti (and Lady Mary could show her dedication by stalking Algarotti to the Arctic!).
When Maupertuis is preparing his big expedition and invites Algarotti along, our otherwise dry author observes that she can't think of what Algarotti was supposed to contribute to the expedition, "except for his company", since he wasn't a geometer, a surveyor or a man of action who couldn't have helped with the hardcore travel parts. Ms Terrell, hot stuff Algarotti was clearly part of the intended entertainment for the Lappland nights!
