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• Preface The Northern Apollo Reborn The Captive Years From Cage to Throne The Coming of the Friend The Second Lola A Triumph, an Idyll and a Parting Germany in Turmoil Sophie Lilla...and Others Wagnerian Strains A Crucial Decade 1866-1876 Fantasies in Stone Dreams of El Dorado Ludwig II and the Theatre Forbidden Longings Farewell to Wagner The Twilight Years The Trap Closes Prophecies Fulfilled Epilogue: The Cult of the Swan King.
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The Swan King is the biography of one of the most enigmatic figures of the nineteenth century, described by Verlaine as `the only true king of his century'. A man of wildly eccentric temperament and touched by a rare, imaginative genius, Ludwig II of Bavaria is remembered both for his patronage of Richard Wagner and for the fabulous palaces that he created as part of a dream-world to escape the responsibilities of state. In the realization of his fantasies, he created a ferment of creativity among artists and craftsmen, while his neglect of Bavaria's political interests made powerful enemies among those critical of his self-indulgence and excesses. At the age of 40, declared insane in a plot to depose him, Ludwig died in mysterious circumstances. What truly happened on that fateful night has never been discovered.
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"L'Europe a d'abord adulé ce jeune roi de vingt ans follement romantique. Avant de tourner en dérision ce personnage extravagant qui aimait les gens du peuple, préconisait la paix lorsque la plupart des pays ne désiraient que la guerre, se ruinait en châteaux féériques et faisait de Wagner un véritable dieu. On l'a dit fou enfin parce qu'homosexuel en ce XIXe siècle si puritain. Mais Louis II de Bavière, solitaire épris de beauté et de poésie, ne disait-il pas de lui-même : "Je veux rester un mystère pour moi-même et pour les autres" ? C'est ce mystère qu'explore la romancière Isaure de Saint Pierre dans un livre qui, à rebours des clichés, rend à Louis II toute sa dimension. Celle d'un amoureux des arts un peu fantasque certes, mais surtout d'un homme politique exigeant qui sut faire face à Bismarck et imposer ses choix."--P. [4] of cover.

• The picnic in the snow : Ludwig II of Bavaria
• The blood countess
• Hawker, Vicar of Morwenstow
• Snapshots for a serial killer
• Mother Ann Lee, Shaker saint
• Daisy and Violet Hilton : Siamese twin vaudeville stars
• Josef Mengele's uterus : the sex life of J. Edgar Hoover.