Stendhal
19th century French writer
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Marie-Henri Beyle , better known by his pen name Stendhal , was a 19th-century French writer. Best known for the novels Le Rouge et le Noir and La Chartreuse de Parme , he is highly regarded for the acute analysis of his characters' psychology and considered one of the early and foremost practitioners of realism. A self-proclaimed egotist, he coined the same characteristic in his characters' "Beylism".==Life== Marie-Henri Baille was born in Grenoble, Isère, on 23 January 1783, into the family of the advocate and landowner Chérubin Beyle and his wife Henriette Gagnon. He was an unhappy child, disliking his "unimaginative" father and mourning his mother, whom he loved fervently, and who died in childbirth in 1790, when he was seven. His closest friend was his younger sister, Pauline, with whom he maintained a steady correspondence throughout the first decade of the 19th century. His family was part of the bourgeois class of the Ancien Regime, which explains his ambiguous attitude toward Napoleon, the Bourbon Restoration, and the monarchy later on.
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What Are Stendhal's Academic Contributions?
Stendhal has made the following academic contributions:
- Vite di Haydn, Mozart e Metastasio
- Vanina Vanini
- The Red and the Black
- The Life of Henry Brulard
- The Charterhouse of Parma
- Rome, Naples and Florence
- On Love
- Memoirs of an Egotist
- Mémoires d'un touriste
- Lucien Leuwen
- Le Coffre et le Revenant
- Lamiel
- Armance
- Über die Liebe
- The Pink and the Green
- Promenades dans Rome
- L’Abbesse de Castro
- A Life of Napoleon
