Marie-Henri Beyle (1783-1842), who published under the name Stendhal, was born in Grenoble, France. He participated in Napoleon’s Russian campaign of 1812. After his years as a man-about-town in Paris, he finally settled in his beloved Italy, serving as the French consul in Trieste and, later, Civitavecchia. Admired both as a romantic novelist and a founding master of realism, Stendhal is also the author of On Love, The Redandthe Black, and The Charterhouse of Parma.
Matthew Josephson (1899-1978) was associated with two significant avant-garde magazines of the 1920s, Broom and Transition. In addition to biographies of several French writers, including Stendhal, he is the author of the classic study of American economic history The Robber Barons.
