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Centrale, is recommended to
apply to the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris. Arrives on 10 November but
prefers not to take the entrance examination.
1800:
Family connections bring him a job at the Ministry of War. His visit
to Milan at the end of May marks the beginning of a lifelong love
affair with Italy. 23 September: appointed to a commission as
sub-lieutenant in the cavalry (of Napoleon's army in Italy).
1801-2:
Granted sick leave and resigns his commission on returning to Paris,
where he devotes more time to study and to his many attempts to write a
comedy.
1804-5:
Falls in love with an actress, Mélanie Guilbert. Follows her to
Marseille, where he briefly finds employment with a colonial import
and brokerage firm.
1806:
Returns to Paris without Mélanie. Departs to join Napoleon's army in an administrative position. Posted to Brunswick.
1809:
Working in Vienna. Illness keeps him from the battle of Wagram.
1810-11:
Returns to Paris and promotion. Presented to the empress. Spends
three months in Italy. Affair with Angela Pietragrua. Works on a history
of Italian painting.
1812:
Leaves Paris for Russia with dispatches. After a month in Moscow departs just before the main retreat.
1814:
Paris occupied by the Allies. Signs declaration recognizing the
Bourbon restoration. 20 July: leaves Paris to live in Milan.
1815:
Publishes his Vies de Haydn , de Mozart et de Métastase . End of the affair with Angela Pietragrua.
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1816-17:
Meets Lord Byron at La Scala. Publishes his Histoire de la peinture en Italie and Rome, Naples et Florence en 1817 (in which he uses the pseudonym ' Stendhal' for the first time). Begins work on a life of Napoleon.
1818:
4 March: beginning of his great and unrequited passion for Matilde Dembowski ( née Viscontini).
1819:
20 June: death of his father Chérubin, who leaves him some minor
debts rather than the fortune he had expected. Passing friendship with
Rossini.
1820-1:
Working on De l'amour .
Suspected by his left-wing friends of being a French agent, and by
the authorities of involvement in left-wing plots. Departure from Milan
and Matilde. Return to Paris.
1822:
Publishes De l'amour . Begins regular contributions (until 1828) on the Parisian cultural scene to English periodicals, such as the New Monthly Magazine .
1825:
1 May: death of Matilde Dembowski.
1827:
Publishes his first novel, Armance .
1829:
25-6 October: his 'first idea' of Le Rouge et le Noir .
1830:
8 April: signs contract with Levavasseur for publication of Le Rouge et le Noir .
25 September: after considerable persistence finally offered the post
of consul in Trieste. 6 November: departure from Paris, after making a
written proposal of marriage to Giulia Rinieri (which is refused). 13
November: publication of Le Rouge et le Noir . Arrival in Trieste. Accreditation refused.
1831:
11 February: appointed consul in Civitavecchia. 5 March: publication of second edition of Le Rouge et le Noir (in pocket-book format). 25 April: accredited as consul by the Holy See.
1833:
Begins elaboration of short stories on the basis of late Renaissance
manuscripts discovered in Rome. These stories, posthumously dubbed his Chroniques italiennes , are published at periodic intervals in the Revue des Deux Mondes during the late 1830s.
1834:
Starts work on Lucien Leuwen but abandons the novel some 700 pages later when, on 23 September
1835, he hears of the abolition of the freedom of the press--by his
employers.
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1835:
Awarded the cross of the Legion of Honour for services to literature
(would have preferred it for services to diplomacy). 23 November: begins
work on his autobiography, the Vie de Henry Brulard , which he abandons on 17 March
1836:
The subject exceeds the saying of it.'
1836:
24 May: arrives in Paris on leave, which he manages to protract until 1839.
1838:
Dictates La Chartreuse de Parme in its entirety between 4 November and 26 December.
1839:
6 April: publication of La Chartreuse de Parme . 13 April: