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| Author: | SLudwig [ Wed Sep 07, 2005 6:29 am ] |
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Was it in use by the Prussians during the war?? <center>-------------------------------------------------------- General der Infanterie Scott Ludwig Prussian Armee Your fellow humans need help: https://give.redcross.org/?rcohome800helpnow Or http://www.networkforgood.org/topics/animal_environ/hurricanes/ Please if you can.</center> |
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| Author: | Al Amos [ Wed Sep 07, 2005 6:39 am ] |
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Forgive me Herr Ludwig, my English is poor, but my French is even more so poor. What is "Sans Souci"? Without Sushi? [:D] Colonel Al Amos |
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| Author: | SLudwig [ Wed Sep 07, 2005 6:59 am ] |
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I'm not sure if I am spelling it right but the Prussian Military Academy setup by Fredrick the Great I think?? <center>-------------------------------------------------------- General der Infanterie Scott Ludwig Prussian Armee Your fellow humans need help: https://give.redcross.org/?rcohome800helpnow Or http://www.networkforgood.org/topics/animal_environ/hurricanes/ Please if you can.</center> |
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| Author: | SansSouci [ Wed Sep 07, 2005 10:50 am ] |
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Scott, I think it was his palace. The interesting thing (well I find it interesting [;)]) is the punctuation. I think he originally called it 'Sans,Souci.' (without ' 's). There's some debate over what this refers too, but there's the suggestion the comma has sexual connotations... Little rod? If anyone knows more about this, I'd be interested. [:)] <font color="orange">Luitenant-colonel Peter Robinson Commander I Corps [url="http://www.geocities.com/militaireacademie"]Koninklijke Militaire Academie[/url] Adjutant 3rd (Prince of Wales's) Dragoon Guards</font id="orange"> |
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| Author: | Malcolm Hunt [ Wed Sep 07, 2005 11:13 am ] |
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Sans Souci (säN soos´e) (KEY) [Fr.,=without care], palace built (1745–47) at Potsdam, Germany, by Frederick II, who lived there for 40 years. Over 300 ft (91 m) long, it is believed to have been conceived by Frederick himself and executed by Knobelsdorff. The library and the magnificent park, the audience chamber with its fine paintings, the orangery, the statue of Frederick, and the great fountain are especially remarkable. Taken from The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05. Lt Malcolm Hunt 1er Régiment de Carabiniers 1ère Division de Cuirassiers Ier Corps de Réserve de Cavalerie L'Armée du Nord. |
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| Author: | Malcolm Hunt [ Wed Sep 07, 2005 11:21 am ] |
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If you happen to speak French you can also visit the following website http://www.berlin-en-ligne.com/potsdam_sanssouci.php it has a couple of pictures also. Lt Malcolm Hunt 1er Régiment de Carabiniers 1ère Division de Cuirassiers Ier Corps de Réserve de Cavalerie L'Armée du Nord. |
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| Author: | SansSouci [ Wed Sep 07, 2005 12:15 pm ] |
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Quoted from: http://www.frieze.co.uk/column_single.asp?c=134 'Sans, Souci.' The comma and full stop are strange. To assume shaky grammar on Friedrich's part would be more far-fetched than to consider it an odd little riddle: unlike other hawks, he knew his French. He once sent a letter to his friend Voltaire, which simply read: P 6 à a 100 Voltaire decoded it (à sous p à cent sous six = à souper à Sanssouci = 'Have supper at Sanssouci') and replied: 'G a' (G grand a petit = J'ai grand appetit = 'I'm hungry'). Some have suggested an armchair-philosophical reading of the inscription as sans comme à souci (with, as well as without, worry). But as historian H. D. Kittsteiner has pointed out, that would have been against French speaker's instinct to pronounce the comma as virgule. Eavesdropping on a tour-guide one mild spring Sunday, I learned that currently in vogue is a more ambivalently Freudian etymology of virgule, the Latin origin of which is virgula (little rod). Would that mean 'Without little rod, worry'? Well, there are persistent rumours that crown prince Friedrich, after early carnal adventures encouraged by his beloved friend Hans Hermann von Katte (who was beheaded in front of his eyes on the orders of Friedrich's tyrannical father Friedrich Wilhelm I), caught a disease that led to a quack mutilating his royal organ. Thus Friedrich, it is claimed, preferred whippets, horses and war to boys, let alone girls. This bitter, oedipally charged victory of Thanatos over Eros is just one possible reading of the comma - and I haven't even started on the full stop. |
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| Author: | SansSouci [ Wed Sep 07, 2005 12:21 pm ] |
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Voltaire, there's another nut. But a bloody funny one. Anyone know anything about the fullstop? <font color="orange">Luitenant-colonel Peter Robinson Commander I Corps [url="http://www.geocities.com/militaireacademie"]Koninklijke Militaire Academie[/url] Adjutant 3rd (Prince of Wales's) Dragoon Guards</font id="orange"> |
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