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Stendhal
Stendhal, oil painting by Pierre-Joseph Dedreux-Dorcy; in the Bibliothèque Municipale de Grenoble, France.
The French author known as Stendhal was born with the name Marie-Henri Beyle.12
Stendhal was one of many pseudonyms adopted by the writer throughout his life. He first used the name Stendhal in 1817 for his travel book Rome, Naples et Florence en 1817.2