The Chartreuse of Parma: An Italian Court After Waterloo
Sep 2026 · Aeneas Press
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A young Italian nobleman wanders onto the field at Waterloo without understanding a thing he sees, and spends the rest of the book in the intrigues of a small court. Stendhal dictated it in fifty-two days at fifty-five; Balzac wrote a seventy-page review calling it a masterpiece and nobody else noticed for sixty years. Thirty plates by Meissonier and Fattori, from soldiers to street urchins and river mornings, catch the Italian light of the court and camp Stendhal knew.
A young Italian nobleman wanders onto the field at Waterloo without understanding a thing he sees, and spends the rest of the book in the intrigues of a small court. Stendhal dictated it in fifty-two days at fifty-five; Balzac wrote a seventy-page review calling it a masterpiece and nobody else n...
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Stendhal (1783-1842) was the pen name of Marie-Henri Beyle, a French novelist born in Grenoble. He marched into Russia with Napoleon's army, served as a consul in the Papal States, and was little read in his lifetime. His works include The Red and the Black, The Charterhouse of Parma, Armance, and On Love.
Stendhal (1783-1842) was the pen name of Marie-Henri Beyle, a French novelist born in Grenoble. He marched into Russia with Napoleon's army, served as a consul in the Papal States, and was little read in his lifetime. His works include The Red and the Black, The Charterhouse of Parma, Armance, an...
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