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A mononym is a name composed of only one word. An individual who is known and addressed by a mononym is a mononymous person.
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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 and La Chartreuse de Parme, he is highly regarded for the acute analysis of his characters' psychology and considered one of the early and foremost practitioners of realism. A self-proclaimed egotist, he coined the same characteristic in his characters' "Beylism".
Stendhal, by Olof Johan Södermark, 1840
A plaque on a house in Vilnius where Stendhal stayed in December 1812 during Napoleon's retreat from Russia.
List of the women that he had loved, inserted in Life of Henry Brulard, in 1835: "I dreamed deeply of these names, and of the astonishing stupidities and stupidities they did to me." (From left to right: Virginie Kubly, Angela Pietragrua, Adèle Rebuffel, Mina de Griesheim, Mélanie Guilbert, Angelina Bereyter, Alexandrine Daru, Angela Pietragrua, Matilde Dembowski, Clémentine Curial, Giulia Rinieri, Madame Azur-Alberthe de Rubempré)
The second volume of the 1831 edition of The Red and the Black, considered to be Stendhal's most notable and well-known work.