Stendhal

A French author. It’s a pen name.

The Red and the Black

M. De Renal, the mayor of Verrieres, hires Julian Sorel as a tutor. He has an affair with the mayor’s wife, which is made public by M. Valenod. Chelan sends Sorel to Besancon. M. Pirard sends Julian to be the Marquis de La Mole’s Secretary. He gets the Marquis’s daughter, Mathilde, pregnant. He shoots Madame Renal and is sentenced to death

The Charterhouse of Parma

Fabrizio del Dongo