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Stendhal, oil painting by Pierre-Joseph Dedreux-Dorcy; in the Bibliothèque Municipale de Grenoble, France.
In the novel The Charterhouse of Parma by the French author Stendhal, the character Fabrice del Dongo travels to the Battle of Waterloo because he is an ardent admirer of Napoleon. Driven by his youthful idealism and enthusiasm for the emperor, he leaves his home to join the French army and participate in the conflict.12