Stefan Zweig - The Society of the Crossed Keys

Detlev von Liliencron, pseudonym of Friedrich, Baron von Liliencron, poet, 1844-1909. Richard Dehmel, 1863-1920, poet. A close friend of Liliencron, and much influenced by Nietzsche. Otto Julius Bierbaum, 1865-1910, poet, novelist and dramatist. Alfred Mombert, 1872-1942, poet.

Scenes from Bohemian Life , the novel on which Puccini’s opera La Bohème is based.

Charles Van Lerberghe, 1861-1907, Belgian Symbolist poet. Camille Lemonnier, 1844-1913, Belgian poet and novelist.

Charles Van der Stappen, 1843-1910, Belgian sculptor.

This Zeppelin was the fourth model of the rigid airships developed by Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin through the last years of the nineteenth century; the first took to the air in 1900. The one described by Zweig, LZ 4, landed at Echterdingen near Stuttgart in 1906 to satisfy the requirements of the German army, which was thinking of buying it. But it then tore away from its moorings in the air and was wrecked. Luckily there was no one inside it at the time.

Cyrenaica, a region of modern Libya occupied by Italy in 1911.

René Arcos, 1881-1959, French poet and novelist.

The Market in the Square , the subtitle of the first of Romain Rolland’s ten novels in the Jean-Christophe series. It was published in 1908.

The magazine in which Rolland’s Jean-Christophe novels were first published in serial form.

Also known as the Saverne Affair, from Saverne (in German Zabern) in Alsace, where incidents illustrating Prussian militarism foreshadowed the Great War.

Emile Verhaeren was run over by a train and died at Rouen station in 1916.