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Stendhal. Marie-Henri Beyle (French: [maʁi ɑ̃ʁi bɛl]; 23 January 1783 – 23 March 1842), better known by his pen name Stendhal (UK: / ˈstɒ̃dɑːl /, US: / stɛnˈdɑːl, stænˈ -/, [1][2][3] French: [stɛ̃dal, stɑ̃dal]), [a] was a French writer. Best known for the novels Le Rouge et le Noir (The Red and the Black, 1830) and La ...
A Life of Napoleon (french: Vie de Napoléon) is a book written by Marie-Henri Beyle, better known under his usual pseudonym of Stendhal, in 1817-1818. It was one of two essays that Stendhal devoted to the Emperor, with Mémoires sur Napoléon (1836-1837) being the second. Stendhal followed Napoleon's campaigns in Italy, Germany, Russia and ...
Souvenirs d’égotisme (French for Memoirs of an Egotist) is an autobiographical work by Stendhal. It was written in 13 days in June and July 1832 while the author was staying in Civitavecchia. [1] Stendhal recounts his life in Paris and London from 1821 to 1830. It includes candid and spirited descriptions of contemporaries such as Lafayette ...
CULTURE SHOCK (4D: Experience for some people who move to another country) FLY OFF THE HANDLE (6D: Enter a fit of rage) ROCKS THE BOAT (22D: Disrupts a calm situation) POP TOPS: The TOP word of ...
The Red and the Black. Le Rouge et le Noir (French pronunciation: [lə ʁuʒ e l (ə) nwaʁ]; meaning The Red and the Black) is a historical psychological novel in two volumes by Stendhal, published in 1830. [1] It chronicles the attempts of a provincial young man to rise socially beyond his modest upbringing through a combination of talent ...
The Charterhouse of Parma (French: La Chartreuse de Parme) is a novel by French writer Stendhal, published in 1839. [1] Telling the story of an Italian nobleman in the Napoleonic era and later, it was admired by Balzac, Tolstoy, André Gide, Lampedusa, Henry James, and Ernest Hemingway. It was inspired by an inauthentic Italian account of the ...
Baas – The Boss. Bakker – Baker. Beek, van – From the brook. Beekhof – garden brook. Beenhouwer – Butcher. Berg, van der – From the cliff, mountain. Berkenbosch – birch wood, a grove of birch trees. Bijl, van der – "from the axe" – i.e. descended from woodcutters (lumberjacks) Boer, de – the Farmer.
The Life of Henry Brulard ( French: Vie de Henri Brulard) is an unfinished autobiography by Stendhal. It was begun on November 23, 1835, and abandoned March 26, 1836, while the author was serving as the French Consul in Civitavecchia. Stendhal had severe doubts about contemporary interest in his autobiography, so he bequeathed it to the reader ...