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The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
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Baron Munchausen, in a blue coat and feathered hat, rides a cannonball through the air, surprising two uniformed artillerymen standing by cannons, with a fortress in the background.
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The Adventures of Baron Munchausen

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Baron Munchausen, in a blue coat and feathered hat, rides a cannonball through the air, surprising two uniformed artillerymen standing by cannons, with a fortress in the background.
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.

The Adventures of Baron Munchausen is a collection of tall tales attributed to the fictional character Baron Munchausen, created by R.E. Raspe. The stories are based loosely on the real-life German storyteller Karl Friedrich Hieronymus, Baron von Münchhausen, who was known for recounting exaggerated adventures from his time as a soldier and sportsman. Raspe's 1785 publication in London, Baron Munchausen's Narrative of His Marvellous Travels and Campaigns in Russia, launched the baron as a type of tall-story teller. Later German translations and enlarged editions of these tales became widely popular in many languages, generally known in English as The Adventures of Baron Munchausen.123

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