Note 120 — IV THE ELECTORAL HOUSE OF HANOVER (HANOVER AND HERRENHAUSEN, 1688-1701) (continued 2)

Curiously enough, on the day after the opening of this august institution, Leibniz took a prominent part in a ‘Village Fair’ at the Court, of which a graphic description remains in a letter from him to the Electress Sophia. It seems to have been a revised edition of the Wirthschaften of her youth, and of similar Arcadian diversions of later days.—For an interesting survey of the relations—both personal and philosophical—between Leibniz and Sophia Charlotte, see A. Foucher de Careil, Leibniz et les deux Sophies, Paris, 1876.