Fouque


Friedrich Heinrich Karl, Baron de la Motte-
[free-drikh hahyn-rikh kahrl,, duh lah moht] /ˈfri drɪx ˈhaɪn rɪx kɑrl,, də lɑ ˈmoʊt/ (Show IPA), 1777–1843, German romanticist: poet and novelist.
Historical Examples

He purchased the fouque property when it was sold by Pierre Rougon.
A Zola Dictionary J. G. Patterson

There is a beautiful moral in one of fouque’s miniature romances,—Die Kohlerfamilie.
The Works of Whittier, Volume VII (of VII) John Greenleaf Whittier

Now you learnt it for love of fouque and Max Piccolomini, and you have kept it up ever since.’
The Two Sides of the Shield Charlotte M. Yonge

It was sent to fouque by his friend Edward Hitzig, with a request that he would compose a ballad on it.
Undine Friedrich de la Motte Fouque

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

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