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Why does Fabrice del Dongo retire to the charterhouse of Parma?
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Stendhal, oil painting by Pierre-Joseph Dedreux-Dorcy; in the Bibliothèque Municipale de Grenoble, France.
In The Charterhouse of Parma, the protagonist Fabrice del Dongo retires to the Carthusian monastery following the tragic deaths of his child and his beloved, Clélia Conti.12
After experiencing a life marked by political ambition, imprisonment, and a passionate affair with Clélia, Fabrice eventually finds that these personal losses necessitate his withdrawal from the world. He spends his final days in the monastery, where he ultimately dies.12