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Illustration of Baron Munchausen
The baron surprising artillerymen by arriving mounted on a cannonball, illustration from a 19th-century edition of The Adventures of Baron Munchausen by Rudolf Erich Raspe.
Baron Munchausen
fictional character
Baron Munchausen, fictional character created by R.E. Raspe, based on the real-life German storyteller Karl Friedrich Hieronymus, Baron (Freiherr) von Münchhausen.
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