Mouche

Only edition in printBedridden and wracked with pain, the German poet Heinrich Heine was visited one day by an attractive young German woman, Elise Krinitz, who had come to Paris to give the poet a few sheets of music from an admirer of his poetry. Heine called her "Mouche", because she wore a seal that was embellished with a fly. She visited him almost daily, read aloud to h