• Short Prose

• Type: Short Story
• Length: 7 pages

• Found in: American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to Now (boxed set)
• Found in: Tales of a Traveller (short story collection)

The Adventure of the German Student is a 1824 short story by notable author Washington Irving. - AsNotedIn

On a stormy night, in the tempestuous times of the French Revolution, a young German was returning to his lodgings, at a late hour, across the old part of Paris. The lightning gleamed, and the loud claps of thunder rattled through the lofty narrow streets -- but I should first tell you something about this young German.

People

• Emanuel Swedenborg, He had been indulging in fanciful speculations on spiritual essences, until, like Swedenborg, he had an ideal world of his own around him.

Places

• 4th Rt, Hotel-de-Ville, He was returning home late on stormy night, through some of the old and gloomy streets of the Marais, the ancient part of Paris.
• 5th Lt, Pantheon, He shut himself up in a solitary apartment in the Pays Latin, the quarter of students.
• Hotel de Ville de Paris, Paris He came to the Place de Greve, the square, where public executions are performed.
• Pont Neuf, Paris He supported her faltering steps across the Pont Neuf, and by the place where the statue of Henry the Fourth had been overthrown by the populace.