Stendhal
Marie Henri Beyle, 1783–1842, French novelist and critic.
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How to use Stendhal in a sentence
Like Flaubert, Tolstoy and Stendhal greatly admired Walter Scott.
This exile was all the more irksome as Stendhal's amoristic history had now reached its great climax.
Modernities | Horace Barnett SamuelThis little work, rushed off in a few hours, is one of Stendhal's happiest efforts.
Modernities | Horace Barnett SamuelIn 1842, Stendhal, with his physical and intellectual faculties still unimpaired, died suddenly at the age of fifty-nine.
Modernities | Horace Barnett SamuelThe life of Stendhal no doubt may not have been as ideally satisfactory as his theories may have warranted.
Modernities | Horace Barnett Samuel
To this lady Stendhal set himself to lay a siege, which was eventually successful after a quite unnecessary duration.
Modernities | Horace Barnett Samuel
British Dictionary definitions for Stendhal
/ (French stɛ̃dal) /
original name Marie Henri Beyle. 1783–1842, French writer, who anticipated later novelists in his psychological analysis of character. His two chief novels are Le Rouge et le noir (1830) and La Chartreuse de Parme (1839)
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Cultural definitions for Stendhal
[ (sten-dahl) ]
The nom de plume of the nineteenth-century French writer and critic Henry Marie Bayle. A major influence on the development of the modern novel, Stendhal's romantic, psychologically realistic works include The Red and the Black and The Charterhouse of Parma.
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