Throughout his life one of his favourite maxims.Īfter the army’s triumphant entry into Milan, Beyle returned to Almost from his childhood, moreover, he hadĪbominated the Jesuits, and “Papism is the source of all crimes,” was Mathematical mind soon swept away all competing claimants for his Materialism of the French sceptics on an essentially logical and Remained consistently faithful, for the operation of the philosophical Of practising that Napoleonic worship to which throughout his life he In the French Army, and the Marengo campaign gave him an opportunity To study privately in his solitary rooms. Independence he refused to attend the college classes and set himself The age of sixteen he proceeded to Paris, where with characteristic Winning a scholarship at the Ecole Polytechnique at Schoolmates, he spent the orthodox unhappy childhood of the artistic Mother at the age of seven, hated by his father and unpopular with his The boy’s character was a compound of sensibilityĪnd hard rebelliousness, virility and introspection. That malice peculiar to those who spring themselves from the class That bourgeoisie which our author was subsequently to chastise with Royalist lawyer, situated on the borderland between the gentry and

Henri Beyle was born in 1783 in Grenoble in Dauphiny, the son of a The Emperor, Julien would have passed for a very honest man. That Julien is a villain and that it is my portrait,” he wrote shortlyĪfter the publication of the book, “why quarrel with me. Of wallowing defiantly in his own alleged wickedness. Stendhal so far from putting forward any excuses makes a specific point Sentimentalist with the ferocious grin of the beast of prey. Hero, Julien, is no doubt, viewed superficially, a cad, a scoundrel,Īn assassin, albeit a person who will alternate the moist eye of the In the most intimate relation to the author’s life and character. Which introductions are made, but because the book as a book stands ( The Red and the Black) not so much as being the formal stuffing of

Particularly necessary to an understanding of Le Rouge et Le Noir Some slight sketch of the life and character of Stendhal is SAMUEL, M.A., Late Scholar Corpus Christi College, Oxford LONDON KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH, TRUBNER & Co., LTD NEW YORK: E.P. *** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE RED AND THE BLACK *** THE RED AND THE BLACK A Chronicle of 1830 BY STENDHAL TRANSLATED BY HORACE B.

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