Carl Gustaf Verner von Heidenstam (1859-1940) was a Swedish poet and novelist, a winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1916. The Charles Men (Karolinerna) is a series of historical portraits of King Charles XII of Sweden and his cavaliers.

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