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It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.

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Born: January 23, 1783
Died: March 23, 1842 (aged 59)
Bio: Marie-Henri Beyle, better known by his pen name Stendhal, was a 19th-century French writer.
Known for:
  1. The Red and the Black (1830)
  2. The Charterhouse of Parma (1839)
  3. Armance (1827)
  4. Lucien Leuwen
  5. Vanina Vanini (1829)
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