Stendhal

[ sten-dahl, stan-; French stahn-dal ]

/ stɛnˈdɑl, stæn-; French stɑnˈdal /

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noun

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.
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This exile was all the more irksome as Stendhal's amoristic history had now reached its great climax.
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This little work, rushed off in a few hours, is one of Stendhal's happiest efforts.
Modernities|Horace Barnett Samuel
In 1842, Stendhal, with his physical and intellectual faculties still unimpaired, died suddenly at the age of fifty-nine.
Modernities|Horace Barnett Samuel

The life of Stendhal no doubt may not have been as ideally satisfactory as his theories may have warranted.
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To this lady Stendhal set himself to lay a siege, which was eventually successful after a quite unnecessary duration.
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British Dictionary definitions for Stendhal

Stendhal

/ (French stɛ̃dal) /

noun

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

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.