A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Fouque, Caroline Auguste de la Motte
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FOUQUE, CAROLINE AUGUSTE DE LA MOTTE,
Born in 1773, at Hernhauser. Her maiden name was Von Briest. She married first a gentleman named Von Rochow, from whom she was divorced in 1800, when she married Charles F. Baron de la Motte Fouqué, the poet of the romantic school. In 1807, she published "Roderic;" in 1808, "The Desk;" in 1809, "Letters on Female Education;" in 1810, "The Hero Maiden of the Verdi;" in 1811, "Edmund's Walks and Wanderings;" in 1812, "Magic of Nature;" and in 1814, "Feodore." She died in 1815.