The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies sequels are the best known and most successful of Potter's books. The author had an affinity for rabbits; she lived with them as pets and observed them closely for years. Though she once wrote that rabbits were creatures of "warm volatile temperaments" and were "shallow and extremely transparent", she invested her rabbits with a variety of characterizations consistent with the nature of the animal. All the rabbit tales were inspired in part by Joel Chandler Harris's Uncle Remus stories, which Potter began illustrating as early as 1893 in an attempt to find career direction and probably because they featured a
Johannes Remus Quietanus bishop of Strasbourg, was obliged to go there to defend his possessions. Remus Quietanus joined his entourage. In 1619, Remus Quietanus met Maria Schlitzweck, a young Alsatian lady he would soon marry. He settled in Rouffach around 1620. His wife gave birth to a boy in 1623. Remus Quietanus was named the physician (doctor) of the city. Maria Schlitzweck died on 27 February 1635. Quietanus married again in 1650 with Maria Helena Freudenstehlin, who came from Ensisheim. Remus Quietanus died in Rouffach on 17 October 1654. When Remus Quietanus wrote to Kepler in Rome in 1611, the two men did