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Stendhal

Biography

Stendhal

Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle) was born in Grenoble in 1783. He served in Napoleon's cavalry and thereafter lived in Italy and Paris, where he wrote many books, including On Love, the autobiographical Life of Henri Brulard,The Charterhouse of Parma (which he wrote in fifty-two days), and The Red and the Black. He died in 1842.

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Books by Stendhal