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Armance Urbain Canel (1827), trans. C.K. Scott-Moncrieff, 1946 De l'Amour (1822)Fabrizzio, in The Charterhouse of Parma Dupont (1839) (trans. by Jeri King)Father ChÃ©lan, in The Red and the Black Levavasseur (1831), trans C.K. Scott-Moncrieff, 1943 Julien Sorel, in The Red and the Black Levavasseur (1831), trans C.K. Scott-Moncrieff, 1943

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War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon's proclamations.

Stendhal

Stendhal [Marie Henri Beyle] (1783–1842), French novelist. The Charterhouse of Parma, ch. III, Dupont (1839) (trans. by Jeri King).

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