Which autobiographical works did Stendhal begin while serving as consul in Civitavecchia?

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Stendhal Stendhal, oil painting by Pierre-Joseph Dedreux-Dorcy; in the Bibliothèque Municipale de Grenoble, France.

While serving as the French consul in Civitavecchia, Stendhal felt isolated and bored, which led him to turn toward autobiographical writing. During this period, he began working on the following autobiographical works:

Souvenirs d’égotisme (Memoirs of an Egotist)
Vie de Henri Brulard (The Life of Henry Brulard)
Lucien Leuwen, a new novel that was largely autobiographical in nature1

Although these works remained unfinished during his lifetime, they were published posthumously and are now regarded as some of his finest literary contributions.1