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Beyle

American  
[bayl] / beɪl /

noun

  1. Marie Henri real name of Stendhal.


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Abukar Osman Beyle sat in a federal courtroom in Norfolk on a recent summer morning.

From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2013

At one point, Beyle looked back at the potential jurors in the room.

From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2013

Even so, it seduced French writers, among them Henri Beyle, better known as Stendhal, and Alfred de Musset, the poet and dramatist.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 30, 2013

The modern French novel also traces its roots to Grenoble, thanks to a native son named Henri Beyle.

From New York Times ● Feb. 25, 2011

The other personages are dramatically and psychologically competent, but Beyle has—perhaps save in one or two cases intentionally—made them something of comparses or "supers."

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by George Saintsbury

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