Who is Stendhal
Marie-Henri Beyle (French: [bɛl]; 23 January 1783 – 23 March 1842), better known by his pen name Stendhal (UK: , US: ; French: [stɛ̃dal, stɑ̃dal]), was a 19th-century French writer. Best known for the novels Le Rouge et le Noir (The Red and the Black, 1830) and La Chartreuse de Parme (The Charterhouse of Parma, 1839), 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".LifeBorn in Grenoble, Isère, he was an unhappy child, disliking his "unimaginative" father and mourning his mother, whom he passionately loved, and who died when he was seven. He spent "the happiest years of his life" at the Beyle count...Read Full Biography of Stendhal
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Stendhal Quotes
- This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
- The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.
- The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.
- Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
- Love has always been the most important business in my life, I should say the only one.
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Ulstergazette: stendhal festival is back.
2econd_crossing: according to eugene's plan, montbrun, who had repelled dornberg from the left bank of the elbe on the 28th, would contain the remaining flying units from the north of werben. davout, from stendhal, 20 miles south of werben, would follow montbrun's tracks into werben.
Natlparkservice: most squirrel bites originate at the front, or “bitey end,” of the squirrel.
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