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Stendhal

Also known as Henri Beyle, Marie Henri Beyle

Marie-Henri Beyle (; 23 January 1783 – 23 March 1842), better known by his pen name Stendhal (, , ), was a 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, the neologism for the same characteristic in his characters was "Beylism".

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Stendhal was a French writer (1783–1842) best known for novels like *The Red and the Black* and *The Charterhouse of Parma*, which are praised for their deep psychological insight into characters. He is considered one of the earliest and most important practitioners of literary realism, a style focused on depicting life and human nature as they actually are rather than as idealized versions.

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Person · Open Library

Born: 23 January 1783
Died: 23 March 1842
Works: 1179

Top works

Le couvent de Baïano
De l'amour
Racine et Shakspeare
赤と黒
Don Pardo

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Film & TV

Writing · Grenoble - France

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Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: United States
Active from: 1783
Active to: 1842

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Listeners: 430
Total plays: 5,577

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5 total works indexed

Killing of gram-negative bacteria by polymorphonuclear leukocytes: role of an O2-independent bactericidal system.
· 1982 · cited 73x
The Charterhouse of Parma
· 2009 · cited 14x
Organization of Ca2+ stores in myeloid cells: association of SERCA2b and the type-1 inositol-1,4,5-trisphosphate receptor
· 1996 · cited 10x
Cost analysis of cardiac MRI for cardiac transplant surveillance
· 2024 · cited 3x
Water Cherenkov muon veto for the COSINUS experiment: design and simulation optimization
· 2024 · cited 2x

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Quotes

“Revenir souvent ici (sur le lac de Côme) est comme une goutte de poison ; ça donne envie de ne jamais partir.”
“(Le Centre du Lac) … et le hardi promontoire qui sépare les deux branches du lac, celle de Come, si voluptuense et celle qui court vers Lecco, plein de sévérité; aspect sublime et gracieux, que le site le plus renommé du monde, la baie de Naples, égale, mais ne surpasse point...”
“Presque tous les malheurs de la vie viennent des fausses idées que nous avons sur ce qui nous arrive. Connaître à fond les hommes, juger sainement des événements, est donc un grand pas vers le bonheur.”
“Je ne vois qu'une règle: être clair. Si je ne suis pas clair, tout mon monde est anéanti.”
“Le même esprit ne dure que deux cents ans.”
“Ce sera la noblesse de leur style qui, dans quarante ans, rendra illisibles nos écrivains de 1840.”

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Key facts

Writer.name: Marie-Henri Beyle
Writer.image: Stendhal.jpg
Writer.caption: Portrait by Olof Johan Södermark, 1840
Writer.birth_place: Grenoble, Kingdom of France
Writer.death_place: Paris, Kingdom of the French
Writer.occupation: Writer
Writer.resting_place: Montmartre Cemetery, Paris
Writer.movement: Romanticism, Realism

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Wikidata facts

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Commons category: Stendhal
date of birth: 1783-01-23
date of death: 1842-03-23
pseudonym: Dominique
Commons Creator page: Stendhal
birth name: Marie-Henri Beyle
Commons gallery: Stendhal
name in native language: Stendhal
P8168: Q144386
floruit: 1825-00-00

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Works in European collections

36 objects attributed to Stendhal, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

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Article

17 sections

Contents

Life
Pseudonyms
Works
Novels
Novellas
Biography
Autobiography
Non-fiction
Crystallization
Critical appraisal
Stendhal syndrome
See also
Notes
References
Works cited
Further reading
External links

Stendhal is also known for ''De l'amour'', his work on "passionate love" in which the concept of "crystallization" was invented. The book was mostly ignored after publishing, but has been lauded posthumously as one of the first "modern" attempts at understanding love. Sharon Brehm, a president of the APA, has called Stendhal "a first-rate psychologist before the official term was coined".