In 1805, as we have seen, he suffered an irreparable loss in the death of Schiller; in 1806, Christiane became his legal wife, and to the same year belongs the magnificent tribute to his dead friend, the Epilog zu Schillers Glocke.
The play, in one act, followed by an epilog, is primarily set in a Gestapo interrogation room in Paris in 1943.