Excerpt from Grete Minde: Nach Einer Altm rkischen Chronik The parents of Theodor Fontane, the author of Grate M inda, were both descended from French Protes tants, who had sought refuge in Prussia after the Revo cation oi the Edict of Nantes They were in temperament strikingly different from one another, contrasting much as the parents of the poet Heine, the father a light-hearted, irresponsible, and somewhat dashing gentleman who conducted a rather unsuccess ful business, the mother a woman of energy and prac tical common sense. Early in the year 1819 the elder Fontane bought the Lion apothecary shop in the little Brandenburg town of neu-ruppin, and there Theodor Fontane was born on December 30. Fontane spent his early boyhood in neu-ruppin, but the family removed in 1827 to the Baltic town of Swinemiinde where the father had acquired the Stadtapotheke. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.