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Question 57: Plot of "Ehrengard"?

Q. I work in a small library at a community college.  I like to add subject headings and summaries to our records to help patrons or to entice them into reading a work. Can you give me an idea of what EHRENGARD is about?

A. "Ehrengard" is one of Isak Dinesen's humorous stories, written for an American magazine.

Ehrengard is a beautiful young woman. An artist, Herr Cazotte, decides he will never be happy until he paints a nude portrait of her. So he elaborately devises a situation where he "seduces" her into posing. She, however, reverses the trick through a comedy of errors--proving Isak Dinesen's point that Fate is more ingenious than any artist.
 

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