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Excerpt from Modernities
For Stendhal was an intellectual in the fullest sense of the term. Neither a recluse scholar nor a rabid doctrinaire, but a man of the world and of action, of brain, heart, and sensibility, he sought and to a large extent found in the intellect an energetic servant, by whose faithful escort he could sally forth on that hunt of happiness, which led him in his variegated career from the field of battle to the bowers of love, and from the high plateaux of reverie to the meti culons terre d terre observations of psychological science.
Henri Beyle was born in 1783, in Grenoble in Dauphine, a town whose hidebound provincialism he hated consistently from his childhood to his death.
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