| birth_place = [[Grenoble]], Fraunce
| death_date = {{death date and age|1842|3|23|1783|1|23|df=y}}
| death_place = Paris, Fraunce
| occupation = Writer
| buried = [[Cimetière de Montmartre]]
| movement = [[Realism (airts)|Realism]]
| influences = [[William Shakespeare]], [[William Hazlitt]], [[Encyclopédistes]]
| influenced = [[Friedrich Nietzsche]], [[Mihail Sebastian]], [[Saul Bellow]], [[Doris Lessing]], [[Marcel Proust]], [[John Dos Passos]], [[Émile Zola]], [[Leo Tolstoy]], [[Carlos Fuentes]], [[Alice Munro]], [[James Joyce]],<ref>"Passion was his raison d'être, and that surely is the religion of all romantics—exaltation through the passions... Stendhal was a product of the Napoleonic age, when the French saw themselves as world conquerors, and his attitude was such. But putting that aside one must admit that La Chartreuse is a good book in the romantic tradition... few men have conveyed passion with such intensity as he has... [examples] His description of their emotional frenzy is magnificent... Stendhal never became sentimental and soft the way Thackeray did, especially over women; in his greatest extravagance he remains hard and glittering... but Thackeray has something which Stendhal did not have: humour." [http://www.saylor.org/site/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/James-Joyce-Literary-Tastes.pdf]</ref> [[Grigol Robakidze]]
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'''Marie-Henri Beyle''' ({{IPA-fr|bɛl|lang}}; 23 Januar 1783 – 23 Mairch 1842), better kent bi his [[pen name]] '''Stendhal''' ({{IPA-fr|stɛ̃dal|lang}} or {{IPA-fr|stɑ̃dal|}};<ref>The pronunciation {{IPA-fr|stɛ̃dal|}} is the maist common in Fraunce the day, as shawn bi the entry "stendhalien" ({{IPA-fr|stɛ̃daljɛ̃|}}) in the Petit Robert dictionary an bi the pronunciation recordit on the authoritative wabsteid [http://www.rightpronunciation.com/details.asp?id=3491&id2=30 Pronny the pronouncer] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160308151457/http://rightpronunciation.com/details.asp?id=3491&id2=30 |date=2016-03-08 }}, which is run bi a professor o lingueestics an records the pronunciations o heichly eddicated native speakers. The pronunciation {{IPA-fr|stɑ̃dal|}} is less common in Fraunce the day, but wis presumably the maist common ane in 19t-century Fraunce an perhaps the ane preferred bi Stendhal, as shawn bi the at the time well-kent phrase "Stendhal, c'est un scandale" as explained on page 88 o [https://books.google.com/books?hl=fr&id=KjC041e87qkC&dq=stendhal+pronunciation&q=scandale#v=snippet&q=scandale&f=false Stendhal: The Red and the Black] bi Stirling Haig. On the ither haund, mony obituaries uised the spellin "Styndal", which clearly indicates that the pronunciation {{IPA-fr|stɛ̃dal|}} wis an aa already common at the time o his daith (see [https://books.google.com/books?ei=eb0gUrP_BqOs4ATCj4GICQ&hl=fr&id=PNcqAAAAMAAJ&dq=stendhal+prononciation+stendal&q=stendal#search_anchor Literaturblatt für germanische und romanische Philologie, Volumes 57 tae 58] [in German], p. 175). Syne Stendhal haed lived an traiveled extensively in Germany, it is o coorse an aa possible that he in fact pronoonced his name as the German ceety {{IPA-de|ˈʃtɛndaːl|}} uisin {{IPA|/ɛn/}} instead o {{IPA|/ɛ̃/}} (an perhaps an aa wi {{IPA|/ʃ/}} instead o {{IPA|/s/}}) an that some French speakers approximatit this but that maist uised ane o the twa common French pronunciations o the spellin "en" ({{IPA-fr|ɑ̃|}} an {{IPA-fr|ɛ̃|}}).</ref>), wis a 19t-century French writer. Best kent for the novelles ''Le Rouge et le Noir'' (''[[The Reid an the Black]]'', 1830) an ''La Chartreuse de Parme'' (''[[The Chairterhoose o Parma]]'', 1839), he is heichly regairdit for the acute analysis o his chairacters' psychology an conseedert ane o the earliest an foremaist practeetioners o [[realism (airts)|realism]].