Friedrich Heinrich Fouque (Baron de la Motte) was a German poet and novelist. He was born in 1777 and died in 1843. A grandson of Heinrich Fouque, he served as a lieutenant of the Prussian guards in the campaign of 1792, and thereafter lived in rural retirement, but again returned to the army, and was present at the most important battles in the campaign of 1813. As a writer his work is marked by fantastic unreality and extravagance of conception. Several of his tales, Der Zauberring (Magic Ring), Undine, and Aslauga's Ritter (Aslauga's Knight), have been very popular. Research Friedrich Fouque
Heinrich Augiust Fouque (Baron de la Motte) was a Prussian soldier. He was born in 1698 and died in 1774. He served with distinction as a general during the Seven Years' War. He was descended from an old Norman family which had fled on account of religious persecutions to the Hague. Heinrich Fouque's Memoires, containing his correspondence with Frederick the Great, are highly interesting. Research Heinrich Fouque
Jeanne-Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon (Madame Guyon) was a French mystic. She was born in 1648 at Montargis and died in 1717. At the age of sixteen she was married to Jacques Guyon, after whose death in 1676 the tendency to mystic enthusiasm which had characterized her younger years, again acquired ascendency, and she began the religious propagandism of her extreme views of self-abnegation, indifference to life and death, and even to future salvation or perdition. She became associated with some enthusiastic priests, abandoned her children and her goods, reserving a moderate annuity; and moved from place to place, making numerous proselytes.
She also published numerous works, snch as Le Cantique des Cantiques interprete selon le Sens Mystique (1685); Poesies Spirituelles (five volumes. 1685); Discours Chretiens et Spirituels (1716), etc. At last the Archbishop of Paris thought it necessary to take steps against the spread of Madame Guyon's mystical doctrines. Through his influence she was shut up in the convent of the Visitation, but afterwards released at the instigation of Madame Maintenon, who herself became for a time a convert to the new doctrines, and allowed Madame Guyon to preach in the seminary of St Oyr, where she made a convert and disciple of Penelon. A commission of ecclesiastics, chief amongst whom was Bossuet, now sat in judgment, and the doctrines of Madame Guyon were condemned in 1695. This led to her being imprisoned for some years, latterly in the Bastille, whence she was liberated in 1702. The rest of her life was spent in retirement and in works of charity. Research Jeannne-Marie Guyon
The La Motte-Picquet is a French Georges Leygues Class destroyer of 3830 tons displacement and a crew of 218 launched in 1985. Two Rolls-Royce Olympus TM3B gas turbines rated at 46200 bhp and two SEMT-Pielstick 16PA6 CV280 diesels rated at 10400 bhp provide a top speed of 30knots; 21 knots on the diesel engines, and a range, of 13600 km at 18 knots. Armaments consist of four Aerospatiale Exocet MM40 anti-ship missiles; a Thomson-CSF Crotale Navale EDIR octuple anti-aircraft launcher with twenty-six missiles; one 100 mm/55 Mod 68 CADAM automatic dual purpose gun; two Oerlikon 20 mm guns; four M2HB 12.7 mm machine-guns; two fixed torpedo launchers and ten ECAN L5 anti-submarine torpedoes; twelve Honeywell Mk 46 torpedoes for use with helicopters are also carried for the ship' s two dual-purpose, anti-submarine and anti-ship Lynx helicopters. Research La Motte-Picquet
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