Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué, German author and poet (d. 1843)
Friedrich Heinrich Karl de la Motte, Baron Fouqué (German: [ˈfʁiːdʁɪç də la ˌmɔtfuˈkeː]); (12 February 1777 – 23 January 1843) was a German writer of the Romantic style.
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