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Stendhal

1783 - 1842

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Marie-Henri Beyle (French: [maʁi ɑ̃ʁi bɛl]; 23 January 1783 – 23 March 1842), better known by his pen name Stendhal (UK: , US: , French: [stɛ̃dal, stɑ̃dal]), was a French writer. Best known for the novels Le Rouge et le Noir (The Red and the Black, 1830) and La Chartreuse de Parme (The Charterhouse of Parma, 1839), he is highly regarded for the acute analysis of his characters' psychology and considered one of the early and foremost practitioners of realism. A self-proclaimed egotist, the neologism for the same characteristic in his characters was "Beylism". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Stendhal is the 62nd most popular writer (down from 43rd in 2019), the 56th most popular biography from France (down from 38th in 2019) and the 16th most popular French Writer.

Stendhal is most famous for his novel "The Red and the Black," which is about Julien Sorel, a young man who will do anything to succeed in life.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Stendhal ranks 62 out of 7,302. Before him are Li Bai, Octave Mirbeau, Astrid Lindgren, Oscar Wilde, Mark Twain, and Henrik Ibsen. After him are Ayn Rand, Aeschylus, Bertolt Brecht, Selma Lagerlöf, Rabindranath Tagore, and Jorge Luis Borges.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1783, Stendhal ranks 1. After him are Simón Bolívar, Hortense de Beauharnais, Washington Irving, Agustín de Iturbide, N. F. S. Grundtvig, Vasily Zhukovsky, Grand Duchess Alexandra Pavlovna of Russia, Friedrich Sertürner, Johann Heinrich von Thünen, Archduke Rainer Joseph of Austria, and Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg. Among people deceased in 1842, Stendhal ranks 1. After him are Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, Luigi Cherubini, Constanze Mozart, Bernardo O'Higgins, Clemens Brentano, Jules Dumont d'Urville, Ferdinand Philippe, Duke of Orléans, Robert Smith, Bon-Adrien Jeannot de Moncey, Shah Shujah Durrani, and Jean Charles Léonard de Sismondi.

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In France

Among people born in France, Stendhal ranks 56 out of 6,770. Before him are Gustave Flaubert (1821), Brigitte Bardot (1934), Édouard Manet (1832), Octave Mirbeau (1848), Henri Becquerel (1852), and Eugène Delacroix (1798). After him are Michel de Montaigne (1533), Pierre de Fermat (1601), Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1520), Philip IV of France (1268), Napoleon II (1811), and Louis XVII of France (1785).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Stendhal ranks 16. Before him are Charles Baudelaire (1821), Marcel Proust (1871), Denis Diderot (1713), Émile Zola (1840), Gustave Flaubert (1821), and Octave Mirbeau (1848). After him are Romain Rolland (1866), Charles Perrault (1628), Guy de Maupassant (1850), Alexandre Dumas fils (1824), Arthur Rimbaud (1854), and François Rabelais (1494).

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