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THIS IS THE DIARY JUNCTION - DATA AND LINKS FOR OVER 500 HISTORICAL AND LITERARY DIARISTS PLEASE TAKE A MOMENT ALSO TO LOOK AT KIP FENN, A MAJOR NOVEL ABOUT THE 21st CENTURY - freely available on this site Stendhal, ___ 1783-1842 ___ French ___ writer BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY Marie-Henri Beyle was born in Grenoble but his mother died when he was only seven, and he hated his father. He left home at 16 for Paris where, in 1800, through the influence of a relative, he became a dragoon in Napoleon's army. He stayed with the army for a couple of years, taking part in the invasion of Italy, but resigned his commission to enjoy Paris society. After a failed love affair with an actress, his father stopped his allowance, and he was obliged to seek menial jobs. Soon, though, he returned to the army, in particular working with Napoleon's staff in Russia. After Napoleon's defeat, he went to Milan. There he met Byron among others, published books on travel and painting, using the pen-name Stendhal, and fell in love - ill-fatedly again - with Mathilde Viscontini Dembowski. In 1820-1821, with prominent liberals being arrested, and suspicions that he was a French spy, Stendhal returned to Paris. In 1822, his innovative psychological analysis of love, 'De l'amour', was published. In 1827, critics panned his first novel 'Armance'. After the accession of King Louis-Philippe, Stendhal was appointed a consul in Trieste, but the Austrians refused to accept him, and he went to a lesser post at Cività Vecchia in the Papal States. In 1831 he published 'Le Rouge et le Noir', and then, after a sojourn in Paris and some travelling in France, he published 'La Chartreuse de Parme'. One biography link DIARY DATES, CONTENT DESCRIPTORS 1801-1814 ___ literary military travel love/sex self WEB TEXT LINKS ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LINKS SOME PUBLISHED TITLES The Private Diaries of Stendhal May 2005 THIS IS THE DIARY JUNCTION - DATA AND LINKS FOR OVER 500 HISTORICAL AND LITERARY DIARISTS Please email if you have any corrections, additions or comments.

IMPORTANT NOTES AND CAUTIONS: 1) The first line of basic information may be incomplete in several ways: some historical figures have different names (titles, pen-names); their birth and death dates may be unknown or uncertain (g - guess, c - circa); similarly, their occupations may be unknown, or they may have had other jobs; and, for early diarists, I've used 'British' a bit too freely. 2) The biographical summary may not be accurate. It was compiled quickly from various sources, mostly on the internet, and the facts were not checked anywhere near as rigorously as they would have been if they'd been intended for publication in a printed form. 3) The journal dates and descriptors (which are in no particular order) must be treated with caution: since I have not examined the diaries myself, the descriptors are only guesses based on bibliographies, anthologies and internet biographies. 4) For the biography and etext links, I have ignored any sites with charges, and I have avoided, wherever possible, those with pop-ups or too much advertising. I have limited myself to providing three etext links where there is some variety between them. 5) For the original manuscript links, I have limited myself to providing a maximum of two (although, for a few diarists, their original diaries are held in more than two places). 6) I have provided the titles - chosen randomly - for up to three printed editions of the diaries.

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