Charles Nodier - a figure in the history of French literature is very peculiar His literary work is inseparable from the history of French romanticism - at the same time, among French romantics, he always stood apart. He was a contemporary of two literary "generations" of Romanticism - and did not actually belong to either of them. He was a kind of "discoverer" in Romanticism - and always found himself in opposition to the romantic literature of his time. Maxim Oden, the narrator of Adele, recalls his involvement in the activities of the secret Italian society and the beautiful Mademoiselle de Marsan, who dramatically linked her fate with the noble struggle of peoples who resisted the captures of Napoleon.