Stendhal: astrology, horoscope, natal chart

Marie-Henri Beyle (January 23, 1783 – March 23, 1842), better known by his penname Stendhal, was a 19th-century French writer. Known for his acute analysis of his characters' psychology, he is considered one of the earliest and foremost practitioners of realism in his two novels Le Rouge et le Noir (The Red and the Black, 1830) and La Chartreuse de Parme (The Charterhouse of Parma, 1839). Life Born in Grenoble, France, he had an unhappy childhood in stifling provincial France, hating his unimaginative father and mourning his mother who died when he was small. His closest friend was his younger sister, Pauline, with whom he maintained a steady correspondence throughout the first decade of the 19th Century. Plaque on house in Vilnius' historic center in which Stendhal stayed in Dec...