Cover of the release of 1949
Cover
of the reprint of 2012
historical
novel
Kluge, Kurt (1939):Nocturno.
Reclams Universalbibliothek - Leipzig
Reprint 1941, 1942, 1949: Reclam-Verlag - Leipzig, Stuttgart
Reprint 2012: Salier Verlag - Leipzig, Hildburghausen
Content:
The author gives a short novel about the topic "Dark
Countess". He believes that Talleyrand substituted Madame Royale to
save her wedding with the Duke of Angoulême and to prevent a wedding with
the Archduke Charles of Austria. Talleyrand hoped he will get an important
political role if Louis XVIII comes back to the French throne.