WRITER

Stendhal

1783 - 1842

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Marie-Henri Beyle (French: [maʁi ɑ̃ʁi bɛl]; 23 January 1783 – 23 March 1842), better known by his pen name Stendhal (UK: , US: , French: [stɛ̃dal, stɑ̃dal]), was a 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Stendhal has received more than 1,360,550 page views. His biography is available in 90 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 87 in 2019). Stendhal is the 43rd most popular writer (up from 58th in 2019), the 38th most popular biography from France (up from 56th in 2019) and the 12th most popular French Writer.

Stendhal is most famous for his novel "The Red and the Black," which is about Julien Sorel, a young man who will do anything to succeed in life.

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  • 1.4M

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  • 83.81

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 90

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 15.30

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.86

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Stendhal ranks 43 out of 7,302. Before him are Friedrich Schiller, H. P. Lovecraft, Charles Dickens, Hermann Hesse, Charles Baudelaire, and Émile Zola. After him are Euripides, Gustave Flaubert, Aristophanes, Jane Austen, Aeschylus, and Simone de Beauvoir.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1783, Stendhal ranks 1. After him are Simón Bolívar, Hortense de Beauharnais, Agustín de Iturbide, Washington Irving, Johann Heinrich von Thünen, N. F. S. Grundtvig, Hugh Glass, Vasily Zhukovsky, Friedrich Sertürner, Grand Duchess Alexandra Pavlovna of Russia, and Archduke Rainer Joseph of Austria. Among people deceased in 1842, Stendhal ranks 1. After him are Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, Luigi Cherubini, Bernardo O'Higgins, Constanze Mozart, Clemens Brentano, Jules Dumont d'Urville, Ferdinand Philippe, Duke of Orléans, Jean Charles Léonard de Sismondi, Dominique Jean Larrey, Pierre Cambronne, and Peter Fendi.

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In France

Among people born in France, Stendhal ranks 38 out of 6,770. Before him are Paul Gauguin (1848), Émile Durkheim (1858), Alexandre Dumas (1802), Charles Baudelaire (1821), Pierre Curie (1859), and Émile Zola (1840). After him are Gustave Flaubert (1821), Henry IV of France (1553), Simone de Beauvoir (1908), Octave Mirbeau (1848), Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor (1122), and Eugène Delacroix (1798).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Stendhal ranks 12. Before him are Jean-Paul Sartre (1905), Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900), Denis Diderot (1713), Alexandre Dumas (1802), Charles Baudelaire (1821), and Émile Zola (1840). After him are Gustave Flaubert (1821), Simone de Beauvoir (1908), Octave Mirbeau (1848), Marcel Proust (1871), Romain Rolland (1866), and Charles Perrault (1628).

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