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Marie-Henri Beyle, better known by his pen name Stendhal, was a 19th-century French writer. Best known for the novels Le Rouge et le Noir and La Chartreuse de Parme, he is highly regarded for the acute analysis of his characters' psychology and considered one of the early and foremost practitioners of realism.
Birth Name
Marie-Henri Beyle
Born
Thursday, 23 January 1783
Died
Tuesday, 22 March 1842