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@SabaQu_Murasaki @kaisou_ja I’m not an expert on this, but i know these balls were held in other courts, notably Russian.
This might offer some insight into the topic(Prince Henry of Prussia, by Chester V. Easum, first published in 1942, ch.3), sadly no further sources are given by the author.
Six years after his quarrel with Frederick, Voltaire wrote a sad little comment in his memoirs:"[he]pretended to love me, ...and I thought I also loved [him]."
Frederick on the other hand confessed in a letter dated 1762 that he always worshipped Voltaire.