should all live together in a "living community" ("Wohngemeinschaft") with shared kitchen facilities. The Herwegh marriage had its stormy periods. In Paris, for a time, Emma found Marie d'Agoult becoming a serious rival for her husbands' affections, and there would later be times when the couple lived apart, but the partnership nevertheless endured. 1848 The long-awaited revolution broke out, in Germany, in March 1848. In his Paris exile Georg Herwegh was still a principal focus of revolutionary awareness. A second volume of "Gedichte eines Lebendigen" (loosely "Poems of one who is alive"), published in 1843 had sharpened up his revolutionary credentials with his target readership. Against the repeated entreaties of his more pragmatic friend and neighbour, Karl Marx, Herwegh hurriedly assembled a small group of armed radicals and marched off to join the small improvised army around Friedrich Hecker in Baden. He was accompanied by his wife, reportedly the only woman in an armed band of 650, whose passion for the enterprise was no less intense than his. For her the coming revolution was a shared struggled, not merely for democracy in Germany, but for the liberation of Poland from the increasingly oppressive tyranny being imposed on "Congress Poland" by Czar Nicholas, who had become a particular hate figure for her. (The czar's mother had been born a princess of Württemberg, less than a day's march from Karlsruhe, the avowed destination of the armed revolutionary group which Georg Herwegh had assembled.) As the little force from Paris reached Alsace, Emma Herwegh undertook at least one covert mission from Strasbourg across the river to make contact with Hecker's force in order to co-ordinate a coming together of the two forces. In the event, however, Karl Marx's prognosis proved correct. Herwegh's Legion of German democrats arrived in Strasbourg having failed to attract the French government backing that they had hoped for. While the force waited in Strasbourg Emma Herwegh, disguised as a stylishly attired teenage boy and armed with two daggers, successfully made contact with Friedrich Hecker in Baden to find only a lukewarm welcome for the support offered. By the end of April the Hecker uprising had been defeated before any coming together with Herwegh's group could be effected, and on 28 April 1848, near Dossenbach (a little upriver of Basel), Herwegh's force was routed by a company of Württemberg infantry. Despite a reward of 4,000 Gulden being offered for Georg's