Simon Templar's prototype!
Alternatively: Anglosaxon Cloak and Dagger stories.
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Of particular music interest for this thread are Frederic Nicolay's duties as "music administrator-librarian" to the royal couple, his hosting of both Mozart and Haydn, as well as his undertaking to "prepare Handel's manuscripts for binding, probably in the 1780s".
Frederic Nicolay was furthermore blood related to a "Carl Ludwig von Nicolay", of the german branch of the family, who died 1820 in Vyborg, Carelia, today Finnland. CLvN has been already identified in previous threads as comte de Saint Germain's last alias. His, practically empty, biography includes no family details.
Fred.Nicolay's three sons however ...
Frederick's three sons were: George Louisa, named after the King and Queen of Denmark who were his sponsors, Frederick and William. Reverend George Louisa Nicolay became Rector of St Michael Paternoster Royal in the City of London and Chaplain to Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany[14] Frederick became Chief Clerk to the British Treasury[15]. Lieutenant-General Sir William Nicolay K.C.H., C.B. (B.1771) became a distinguished army officer in The Royal Artillery, Royal Staff Corps, Royal Engineers and the King's German Legion. He was present at a number of significant battles and was decorated for his exemplary command of 5 companies of the Royal Staff Corps at the Battle of Waterloo. Sir William went on to become Governor of St Kitts, Mauritius & Dominica and was made a Knight Commander of the Royal Guelphic Order (KCH). He died at Oriel Lodge, Cheltenham, England on the 3rd May 1842.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolay_(family)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_...ch_von_Nicolai
Nicolai Christoph Friedrich (1733-1811) &Cie.
Nicolai, Christoph Friedrich (1733-1811), code name: Lucian. Bookseller and publisher, Berlin; founder, along with Lessing and Mendelssohn, of the Bibliothek der schonen Wissenschaften (Library of Fine Philosophy) and the periodical, Briefe, die neueste Literatur betreffend; editor of the journal Allgemeine Deutsche Bibliothek. His circle: Lessing, Mendelssohn, Herder, Goethe, Schiller, Kant and Fichte; and, perhaps most notably for the present study, Adam Weishaupt himself
Nicolai was the focal point of the German/Prussian Aufklädrung (Enlightenment); and, along with his partners Lessing and Mendelssohn, he was largely responsible for it. Nicolai was undoubtedly Weishaupt's main source for procuring books and journals, and from that acquaintance was likely initiated into the Order himself. Subsequently, the Illuminati would publish many pamphlets, articles and revolutionary tracts through this most important channel.
To stress the importance of Nicolai to the dissemination of ideas during the German Enlightenment it is reported that his journal Allgemeine Deutsche Bibliothek, for instance, reviewed a staggering 80,000 books in forty years. It was "intended to review (and thereby to expose to as large a public as possible) the entire prose production of the time …" ( The Eighteenth Century German "Trivialroman" As Constructed By Literary History And Criticism)
http://www.conspiracyarchive.com/NWO/Illuminati.htm
Yanni's timeline extract:
17 july 1761, Sterlitz: "A" Colonel Graeme(Grimm*) writes to "Mr Mitchell ,upon Lord Harcourt's journey to demand the hand of the Princess of Mechlenburg-Sterlitz"
(Wikipedia: ....when his affianced bride Princess Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz was to be married to the King, his Majesty sent Frederick De Nicolay to attend his future Queen.)
Giessmannsdorf, 23. Juli 1761: Letter An den Hauptmann und Flügeladjutanten Freiherrn von Cocceji •Schreiber:Friedrich (Preußen, König, II.) •Empfänger:Cocceji, Johann Friedrich
On 8 September 1761, the King married in the Chapel Royal, St James's Palace, Duchess Sophia Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, whom he met on their wedding day
September, 1761 One of the two little germans in Diderot’s circle in Paris was Ludwig Heinrich Nicolay**, 1737-1820. (Friedrich Dominicus Ring, éditeur de Diderot, p116.) see also L.H. Nicolay (1737-1820) and his contemporaries, by Edmund Heier
*FMGrimm is nowhere to be found 1761-1762, and his next record is in a letter by Frederick King of Prussia to his cousin Duchess of Saxen-Gotha: Potsdam, 22 juillet 1763, Madame ma cousine,J'ai de grandes obligations au sieur Grimm, ma chère duchesse, puisqu'il me procure une lettre de votre part, où vous m'assurez de votre précieux souvenir.Nous avons ici M. d'Alembert, qui vaut mieux encore en société qu'en ses livres
**notable members of the German branch of the House of Nicolay, including Baron Ludwig Heinrich von Nicolai - Private tutor of Emperor Paul I of Russia and his son Baron Paul Von Nicolay - Russia's State Council and the Tsarist Ambassador to London, Copenhagen and Stockholm. The family owned and developed the manor and park of Mon Repos (Vyborg) from 1788-1943.
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PS RICERCAR, Your Grace, ricercar,if You don't want to make a Fool or Liar of Yourself : http://www.online-literature.com/for...d.php?p=615557 post 32.