Stendhal

American  

[sten-dahl, stan-, stahn-dal] / stɛnˈdɑl, stæn-, stɑnˈdal /

noun

1. Marie Henri Beyle, 1783–1842, French novelist and critic.

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Stendhal British  

/ stɛ̃dal /

noun

1. 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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Stendhal Cultural  

1. 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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Example Sentences

His final work in 2021 was a production of The Red and the Black based on the 1830 novel by French writer Stendhal.

From BBC • Apr. 10, 2023

John Cartwright from the Stendhal festival, which is scheduled to begin on 9 July, said "it has been a long 16 months" for the sector.

From BBC • Jul. 1, 2021

Another reopened investigation concerns Inga Gehricke, who was 5 when she disappeared in 2015 near a property that he owned on the outskirts of the German town of Stendhal.

From New York Times • Jun. 10, 2020

In her 1989 book, “La sindroma di Stendhal,” Magherini gave the condition a name — Stendhal Syndrome.

From Washington Post • Aug. 7, 2019

In lithography and painting he exalted such diverse heroes of the different arts as Stendhal, Hugo, Baudelaire, Delacroix, Manet, Schumann, Weber, Berlioz, and Wagner.

From Artists Past and Present Random Studies by Cary, Elisabeth Luther