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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.

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