Fouqué

[ foo-key ]
/ fuˈkeɪ /

noun

Frie·drich Hein·rich Karl, Baron de la Motte- [free-drikh hahyn-rikh kahrl, duh lah moht] /ˈfri drɪx ˈhaɪn rɪx kɑrl, də lɑ ˈmoʊt/,1777–1843, German romanticist: poet and novelist.

Example sentences from the Web for fouque

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • He purchased the Fouque property when it was sold by Pierre Rougon.

    A Zola Dictionary |J. G. Patterson

British Dictionary definitions for fouque

Fouqué
/ (German fuˈkeː) /

noun

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