Chapter 29

[Footnote 106: Louis Charles Adélaïde de Chamisso de Boncourt (1781-1835), known as Adelbert von Chamisso, a noted German writer and naturalist, of French birth. His parents had taken him to Germany during the Emigration, and he subsequently made Prussia his adopted country. The best known of Chamisso's multifarious works, most of which are in German, is the world-famed _Peter Schlemihl_, the story of the shadowless man.--T.] [Footnote 107: Chamisso's two elder brothers (not his uncles), Hippolyte and Charles, were…