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Fouqué

American  
[foo-key] / fuˈkeɪ /

noun

  1. Friedrich Heinrich Karl, Baron de la Motte- 1777–1843, German romanticist: poet and novelist.


Fouqué British  
/ fuˈkeː /

noun

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

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Fouqué represents the talent which develops in the glare of the world, is popular for a decade, but soon withers when the sun is set.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 05 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English by Various

Undine-like: Undine, a graceful water nymph, is the heroine of the charming little romantic story by De la Motte Fouqué.

From The Vision of Sir Launfal And Other Poems by James Russell Lowell; Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Julian W. Abernethy, PH.D. by Lowell, James Russell

It has been before—and since—a prolific source of supply to authors of all ranks and nationalities: Goethe, Schiller, Hoffman, Brentano, Fouqué, Scott, and others.

From Dumas' Paris by Mansfield, M. F. (Milburg Francisco)

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

From The Log School-House on the Columbia by Butterworth, Hezekiah

Fouqué Friedrich, Baron de la Motte Fouqué, was descended from a French family that had emigrated to Prussia, and his grandfather was a general under Frederick the Great.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 15 by Various