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Stendhal

1783 - 1842

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

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Stendhal has received more than 1,251,174 page views. His biography is available in 87 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 86 in 2019). Stendhal is the 58th most popular writer (down from 39th in 2019), the 56th most popular biography from France (down from 31st in 2019) and the 14th 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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  • 1.3M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 79.18

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 87

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 12.15

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.36

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Stendhal ranks 58 out of 5,755. Before him are Émile Zola, Hesiod, Gabriel García Márquez, Daniel Defoe, Li Bai, and Bertolt Brecht. After him are Umberto Eco, Gustave Flaubert, Thomas Mann, Rabindranath Tagore, Jack London, and Henrik Ibsen.

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Contemporaries

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

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In France

Among people born in France, Stendhal ranks 56 out of 6,011. Before him are Claudius (-10), Brigitte Bardot (1934), Francis I of France (1494), Pierre de Fermat (1601), Michel Foucault (1926), and William the Conqueror (1028). After him are Gustave Flaubert (1821), Edgar Degas (1834), Georges Bizet (1838), Jacques-Louis David (1748), Arthur Rimbaud (1854), and Charles Perrault (1628).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Stendhal ranks 14. Before him are Alexandre Dumas (1802), Marcel Proust (1871), Denis Diderot (1713), Simone de Beauvoir (1908), Octave Mirbeau (1848), and Émile Zola (1840). After him are Gustave Flaubert (1821), Arthur Rimbaud (1854), Charles Perrault (1628), Romain Rolland (1866), Marquis de Sade (1740), and Jean de La Fontaine (1621).

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