Fouqué

[ foo-key ]

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noun

Frie·drich Hein·rich Karl, Baron de la Motte- [free, -d, r, i, kh, -, hahyn, -, r, i, kh, kah, r, l, d, uh, lah-, moht], 1777–1843, German romanticist: poet and novelist.

Fouqué

/ fuˈkeː /

FouquéFriedrich Heinrich Karl, Baron de la Motte17771843MGermanWRITING: romantic writer Friedrich Heinrich Karl (ˈfriːdrɪç ˈhainrɪç karl), Baron de la Motte. 1777–1843, German romantic writer; author of Undine (1811)

Though attributed to Fouqué, the real author was Adalbert von Chamisso.

She had loved to read the strange stories of Hoffman, and the imaginative works of Baron Fouqué.

Undine—shades of La Motte Fouqué—is quite the most disagreeable girl in our fiction.

The ladies might have passed for transcendental relatives of Fouqué's Undine.

Fouqué was born at Brandenburg, February 12th, 1777, and was a thorough German at heart.

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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