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050 4 _aPQ
100 1 _aBenoît, Pierre,
_d1886-1962
240 1 0 _aKœnigsmark. Finnish
245 1 0 _aRuhtinatar Aurore
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aWikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koenigsmark_(novel)
500 _aRelease date is 2025-07-14
508 _aTuula Temonen
520 _a"Ruhtinatar Aurore (»Königsmark»)" by Pierre Benoît is a novel written in the early 20th century. It follows the French officer-scholar Raoul Vignerte, who becomes tutor to a German prince at the court of Lautenburg-Detmold on the eve of the Great War and is drawn into perilous palace intrigues around the elusive Grand Duchess Aurore and the calculating Grand Duke Friedrich‑August. Framed by a soldier’s recollection at the front, the story promises a blend of romance, espionage, and political mystery within a haunted German court. The opening of the novel places a French company in a bleak frontline sector in 1914, where the narrator and Lieutenant Raoul Vignerte settle their men, encounter a dead German from the 182nd Regiment, and the name “Lautenburg” visibly disturbs Vignerte. In a dugout that night, after forced card play and a silent patrol past fresh graves, Vignerte begins his confession. His backstory shifts to 1913 Paris: a stalled academic career, a chance meeting with a well-connected acquaintance who steers him toward a lucrative post tutoring the young Joachim at the Lautenburg-Detmold court, and a cautioned interview with Professor Thierry, who hints at troubling deaths, unusual succession, and the dangerous character of Grand Duke Friedrich‑August. Vignerte then secures the position from the French envoy de Marçais—complete with funds and instructions, even a test in recitation for the poetry-loving Grand Duchess—while Thierry offers sober teaching advice, and departure for the German court becomes imminent. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cHelsinki: Kust.Oy Kirja, 1922
653 _aMystery fiction
653 _aNobility -- Germany -- Fiction
653 _aFrench fiction -- Translations into Finnish
653 _aFrench -- Germany -- Fiction
700 1 _aRaitio, K. V.
_q(Kosti Volmari),
_d1889-1929
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76501
999 _c117226
_d117226