Stendhal's novels feature heroes who reject any form of authority that would restrain their sense of individual freedom. In 1821, he returned to Paris for a life of literature, politics, and love affairs. After Napoleon's fall, Stendhal lived for six years in Italy, a country he loved during his entire life. Stendhal served with Napoleon's army in the campaign in Russia in 1812, which helped inspire the famous war scenes in his novel The Red and the Black (1831). Therefore, Stendhal left home as soon as he could. He detested his father, a lawyer from Grenoble, France, whose only passion in life was making money. It was written in 18 but published in 1890, long after his death. One of the great French novelists of the nineteenth century, Stendhal (pseudonym for Marie-Henri Beyle) describes his unhappy youth with sensitivity and intelligence in his autobiographical novel The Life of Henri Brulard.
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