Before the Revolution
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Before the Revolution is a 1964 Italian drama film directed by Bernardo Bertolucci. It stars Adriana Asti and Francesco Barilli and is centred on "political and romantic uncertainty among the youth of
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The film is based on a saying by Talleyrand.
Stendhal
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Marie-Henri Beyle, better known by his pen name Stendhal, was a 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
Portrait by Olof Johan Södermark, 1840
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)
Second volume of the 1831 edition of The Red and the Black, considered to be Stendhal's most notable and well-known work