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Stendhal

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Also known as Henri Beyle, Marie Henri Beyle

escritor francês

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Marie-Henri Beyle, known by the pseudonym Stendhal, was a French writer, autobiographer, diarist, and biographer. Born in Grenoble on January 23, 1783, he died in Paris on March 23, 1842, from a stroke. He is buried at Montmartre Cemetery. His native language was French, and he was associated with the movements of literary realism and Romanticism.

His notable works include *The Red and the Black*, *The Charterhouse of Parma*, *On Love*, and *Vanina Vanini*. Other listed works are *Le couvent de Baïano*, *De l'amour*, *Racine et Shakspeare*, and *Don Pardo*. He is described in sources such as the *Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary* and the *Encyclopædia Britannica* 11th edition.

Synthesized by Vinony from 44 facts across 9 sources: Wikidata, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Last.fm, TMDb, Wikiquote, Europeana Sparql, Open Library, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Born
23 January 1783
Died
23 March 1842
Works
1179

Top works

  • Le couvent de Baïano
  • De l'amour
  • Racine et Shakspeare
  • 赤と黒
  • Don Pardo

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Film & TV

Writing · Grenoble - France

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United States
Active from
1783
Active to
1842

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
430
Total plays
5,577

Tags

frenchpunkfinnishindustrialspeech

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Marie-Henri Beyle (January 23, 1783 – March 23, 1842), better known by his penname Stendhal, was a 19th-century French writer. Known for his acute analysis of his characters' psychology, he is considered one of the earliest and foremost practitioners of realism in his two novels Le Rouge et le Noir (The Red and the Black, 1830) and La Chartreuse de Parme (The Charterhouse of Parma, 1839). There are two bands with the name of the great writer: <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Stendhal">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Quotes

  • Revenir souvent ici (sur le lac de Côme) est comme une goutte de poison ; ça donne envie de ne jamais partir.
  • (Le Centre du Lac) … et le hardi promontoire qui sépare les deux branches du lac, celle de Come, si voluptuense et celle qui court vers Lecco, plein de sévérité; aspect sublime et gracieux, que le site le plus renommé du monde, la baie de Naples, égale, mais ne surpasse point...
  • Presque tous les malheurs de la vie viennent des fausses idées que nous avons sur ce qui nous arrive. Connaître à fond les hommes, juger sainement des événements, est donc un grand pas vers le bonheur.
  • Je ne vois qu'une règle: être clair. Si je ne suis pas clair, tout mon monde est anéanti.
  • Le même esprit ne dure que deux cents ans.
  • Ce sera la noblesse de leur style qui, dans quarante ans, rendra illisibles nos écrivains de 1840.

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Key facts

Writer.name
Marie-Henri Beyle
Writer.image
Stendhal.jpg
Writer.caption
Portrait by Olof Johan Södermark, 1840
Writer.birth_place
Grenoble, Kingdom of France
Writer.death_place
Paris, Kingdom of the French
Writer.occupation
Writer
Writer.resting_place
Montmartre Cemetery, Paris
Writer.movement
Romanticism, Realism

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Henri
Gender
male
Citizenship
France
Place of birth
Grenoble
Place of death
Paris
Occupation
diarist
Languages spoken
French
Native language
French
Religion
atheism
Movement
Romanticism
Image
Stendhal.jpg
Show 24 more facts
topic's main category
Category:Stendhal
place of burial
Montmartre Cemetery
Commons category
Stendhal
date of birth
1783-01-23
date of death
1842-03-23
pseudonym
Dominique
Commons Creator page
Stendhal
birth name
Marie-Henri Beyle
cause of death
stroke
manner of death
natural causes
Commons gallery
Stendhal
medical condition
syphilis
name in native language
Stendhal
ethnic group
French
has written for
The London Magazine
writing language
French
interested in
painting
P8168
Q144386
has works in the collection
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
on focus list of Wikimedia project
Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
floruit
1825-00-00
topic has template
Template:Stendhal
has characteristic
mononym
Sources (7)

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Works in European collections

36 objects attributed to Stendhal, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

Article · Português

Henri-Marie Beyle, mais conhecido como Stendhal (Grenoble, 23 de janeiro de 1783 — Paris, 23 de março de 1842) foi um escritor francês. Seus romances de formação O Vermelho e o Negro (1830), A Cartuxa de Parma (1839) e o inacabado Lucien Leuwen fizeram dele, ao lado de Flaubert, Victor Hugo, Balzac e Zola, um dos grandes romancistas franceses do século XIX. Em seus romances, Stendhal aborda jovens com aspirações românticas de vitalidade, força de sentimento e sonhos de glória. Seus romances foram classificados como psicológicos na medida em que mostra personagens em constante conflitos entre suas verdadeiras intenções e as máscaras sociais necessárias para alcançar seus objetivos. Esse conflito surge a partir de descrições críticas das convenções sociais burguesas da época e o desprezo que seus personagens sentem por essas convenções, bem como a necessidade de adaptar-se a esse contexto. O estilo de Stendhal é classificado como realista pois transmite a impressão direta de seus personagens sobre o que está sendo vivido no momento da narrativa. Stendhal criou um estilo curto, seco, conciso e com uma cadência irregular que se aproxima do imediatismo da linguagem falada.

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