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Friedrich Heinrich Karl de la Motte, Baron Fouque (12 February 1777 - 23 January 1843) was a German writer of the romantic style."
Friedrich Heinrich Karl de la Motte, Baron Fouqué (12 February 1777 - 23 January 1843) was a German writer of the romantic style.
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Friedrich de la Motte Fouque wrote the German romance novella Undine. This early German romance has been translated into several languages and has been adapted into two ballets and two operas. Undine is a water spirit who must marry in order to gain a soul. When a knight meets Undine, who is living in the forest with a poor fisherman and his wife, he has misgivings about her supernatural powers. Even though he is given warnings he still wants to marry her.
Friedrich Heinrich Karl de la Motte, Baron Fouqu�, was a German writer of the romantic movement. In his writings Fouqu� expressed heroic ideals of chivalry designed to arouse a sense of German tradition and national character in his contemporaries during the Napoleonic era. Sintram and his Companions and Undine have been republished many times.
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Undine is a novel by Friedrich de la Motte Fouque concerning Undine, a water spirit who marries a Knight named Huldebrand in order to gain a soul. It is an early German romance, which has been translated into English and other languages. During the nineteenth century the book was very popular and was, according to The Times in 1843, "a book which, of all others, if you ask for it at a foreign library, you are sure to find engaged."