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Le rouge et le noir: chronique du XIXe siècle
by Stendhal
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Creators: Stendhal (1783-1842) "Le rouge et le noir: chronique du XIXe siècle" by Stendhal is a novel published in 1830. It follows Julien Sorel, an ambitious young man from provincial France who dreams of becoming a new Napoleon. Through his positions as tutor and secretary, he enters bourgeois and aristocratic society, where he becomes entangled in passionate affairs with two women: Madame de Rênal and Mathilde de La Mole. His rise from carpenter's son to nobleman tests the boundaries between ambition, hypocrisy, and authentic feeling in nineteenth-century France. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading Level: Reading ease score: 79.7 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. Rights: Public domain in the USA. Downloads: 2250