Stendhal

Stendhal was the pen name of Marie-Henri Beyle, born in Grenoble in 1783. His mother died when he was seven, and he grew up disliking his father and the conservative provincial society of Grenoble. In 1799 he went to Paris, and through his cousins, the Daru family, he obtained posts in Napoleon's administration; he followed the army to Italy, Germany and Russia, and witnessed the retreat from Moscow in 1812. After Napoleon's fall he lived in Milan, which he loved, and wrote on music, painting and travel, as well as the essay On Love. Returning to Paris in 1821, he published The Red and the Black in 1830. After the July Revolution he was appointed French consul at Civitavecchia in the Papal States, where he spent most of his remaining years and wrote The Charterhouse of Parma (1839), praised by Balzac. He died in Paris in 1842 after a stroke. Little read in his lifetime, he predicted that he would be understood later, and he is now considered a founder of the realist novel.

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