Stendhal, i. e. Marie-Henri Beyle
French writer, 1783-1842
"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"" (""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. Contemporary readers did not fully appreciate Stendhal's realistic style during the Romantic period in which he lived. He was not fully appreciated until the beginning of the 20th century. He dedicated his writing to ""the Happy Few"" (in English in the original)."
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French writer (1783-1842). Autograph letter signed ("Chapuis"). [Milano]. 4to. ¾ p. With autogr. address.
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A hitherto unpublished letter to his sister Pauline Périer-Lagrange. On the point of leaving Milan, he invites his sister to wait for him on the way to make the trip with him to Paris. "Mes affaires me rappellent à Paris, ma chère amie. Il est possible que je parte le 12 novembre, mais c'est le 15 au plus tard que je me mettrai en route. Je suppose que tu attendras un moment plus brillant pour faire le voyage de Paris. Cependant, si tu as la possibilité de le faire, je suis d'avis de partir, vu que l'occasion est chauve, comme dit don Japhet d'Arménie.
Si tu n'as rien de mieux à faire, rends-toi à Cularo le 15 nov. Tu ne m'y attendras pas: 3 jours au plus. Sinon viens à Bourgoin le 16 ou le 17. J'embrasse tendrement ton mari. Je ne resterai que 20 à 24 h. au plus à Cularo; depuis la mort de notre pauvre grand-père, je n'ai plus de coeur dans cette ville. | Chapuis". - As soon as Stendhal arrived in Paris at the end of November 1813, Stendhal was to be charged with the defense of his native city Grenoble, a mission which proved impossible considering the superiority of the coalition forces. Like many high-ranking Napoleonic officials, Stendhal found no place in the strictly diminished government of the Bourbon Restoration under King Louis XVIII, and became a Napoleon's nostalgic and liberal, an oppositionist. He once more went to Milan and became the literary man and writer as we know him..
French writer (1783-1842). Autograph letter signed ("H. Beyle"). [Paris]. 8vo. 4 pp. on bifolium.
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Important letter in French, to Sophie Duvaucel, about Manzoni's "Promessi Sposi" ("The Betrothed"). Stendhal is to receive the third volume of the novel from General La Fayette: "There is a problem, it does not exist, or at least M. Manzoni only published the first half of this third volume. He thinks his novel is boring and it is said that he will not finish it. […] Mr. Ugoni from Brescia is the man in Paris who could most probably purchase the first half of the third volume for you. Mr. Fauriel, the only scholar in Paris who is not pedadantic, the old friend of Mme de Condorcet, is a close friend of Mr.
Mazoni and has 'Gli Sposi' translated for a Mr. Trognon. This Mr. Trognon is the brother of the tutor of Monseigneur the Count of Beaujoulais or the Prince of Joinville, or it is the tutor himself. The princes live at the royal palace. Mr. Fauriel visits Mlle Clarke, where Mme Alexander could speak to him […]" (transl.). Though Stendhal made references to Manzoni's novel in Rome, Naples and Florence, its success probably displeased him. In his "Mélanges de littérature", Stendhal characterizes Manzoni as "excessively devout" and writes that "The Betrothed" are "overly praised", although he recognizes the book shows the existence of "Bravi" during the Spanish Government. - Sophie Duvaucel (1789-1867), daughter-in-law of Georges Cuvier, was one of the most endearing figures of the group of the "Jardin des Plantes". She assisted the naturalist in his works..
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E. Brief mit U.
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Stendhal (d. i. Henri Beyle, 1783–1842), Schriftsteller. E. Brief mit U. („HBeyle“). Civitavecchia, 3. April 1840. ½ S. auf Doppelblatt. Gr.-4°. Mit e. Adresse (Faltbrief). – An den französischen Konsul in Neapel, M. de Montigny, und mit der Mitteilung, daß er dessen Brief an Dominique Miège weitergeleitet habe: „Le paquebot poste étant en retard, j’ai profité, conformément à vos désirs, du départ de l’Antonietta pour faire parvenir à M. Miège le pli de l’Ambassade que vous m’avez envoyé le 27 Mars dernier par le Janus [...]“. – Stendhal war seit 1831 Konsul in der Hafenstadt Civitavecchia und hatte dort auch einige Jahre zuvor, 1838, seine „La Chartreuse de Parme“ geschaffen. – Auf Briefpapier mit gedr. Briefkopf „Consulat de France“ und gedr. Adresse; etwas knittrig, angestaubt und gebräunt und mit kleinen Randschäden.