This is a story of Heinrich Heine and his Mathilda.
At present we have only this one chapter/story of this book.
This is one chapter of the more complete book by Richard
Le Gallienne which contains additional true love tales about other
famous people.}





Heine and Mathilde

by Richard Le Gallienne




The love story of Heine and his Mathilde is another of those stories
which fix a type of loving. It is the love of a man of the most
brilliant genius, the most relentless, mocking intellect, for a
simple, pretty woman, who could no more understand him than a cow can
understand a comet. Many men of genius have loved just such women,
and the world, of course, has wondered. How is it that men of genius
prefer some little Mathilde, when the presidents of so many women's
clubs are theirs for the asking? Perhaps the problem is not so
difficult as, at first sight, it may seem. After all, a man of
genius is much like other men. He is no more anxious than any other
man to marry an encyclopedia, or a university degree. And, more than
most men, he is fitted to realize the mysterious importance and
satisfaction of simple beauty--though it may go quite unaccompanied