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

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

From Washington Post • Aug. 7, 2019

While Christie’s claims “an unusually uniform scholarly consensus” that the painting is by Leonardo, some respected experts on Renaissance art who have seen the work have failed to succumb to Stendhal syndrome.

From New York Times • Nov. 13, 2017

Of this school George Sand and Balzac are the masters, though much importance must also be assigned to Stendhal.

From A Short History of French Literature by Saintsbury, George