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n. - French writer whose novels were the first to feature psychological analysis of the character (1783-1842).

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  • (There are honorable echoes here of the young Fabrice del Dongo's adventures at Waterloo in Stendhal's The Charterhouse of Parma.)
  • Marie Henri Beyle, known better under his pseudonym, "Stendhal," died during this year.
  • And we do experience a version of Stendhal syndrome.
  • I enjoyed the lecture very much; it was on Stendhal.
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