In an incestuous moment of reconciliation, a Commandant created by this author “hung over [his daughter] as if she were his first love and held her mouth and kissed it.” At the end of a story by this author, (15[1])the Emperor appends to one law the clause (15[1])“if it should be the will of God.” A knight created by this author recovers from a mortal wound after losing a duel, while his opponent, the regicidal and fratricidal (*) Jacob the Redbeard, dies from a scratch. After a man who is not Leopardo the chasseur confesses to a crime, one of this author’s characters claims she was “ready for some villain of a fellow… but not the devil.” In a story by this author, a Russian Count rescues a woman from some soldiers, only to assault her himself after she faints; that story opens with the title noblewoman (10[1])putting (10[1])in a newspaper a request for the father of her child to reveal himself. For 10 points, name this author of “The Marquise of O—.” ■END■