\paperw4260 \margr0\margl0 \plain \qj\li105\ri195 \f1 \b Le Rouge et le Noir (The Red and the Black)\b0 \par
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Published in 1830, \i Le Rouge et le Noir\i0 (\i The Red and
the Black\i0 ) was based on a real story, a tutor's attempt to murder the mother of his two pupils, who had become his mistress. Tried by the Assize Court of IsΦre, he was found guilty and executed. Without making many changes to the actual events or to
the lives of the people involved, Stendhal wrote a \i ônovel of forceö\i0 in which each of the characters is depicted with absolute mastery and a rare accuracy. The psychological processes of the hero Julian Sorel, an ambitious, passionate, and proud ma
n who is at once seducer and seduced, are set within the framework of the red, symbolizing the military career, and the black, the color of the savers of souls, in what many people consider to be the greatest French novel of the nineteenth century.\par
