[sten-dahl, stan-; Fr. stahn-dal] 
(Marie Henri Beyle ) 1783–1842, French novelist and critic. |
| Sten·dhal (stěn-däl', stān-, stäɴ-) French writer who influenced the development of the modern novel with his psychologically penetrating romances, such as The Red and the Black (1830). |
The nom de plume of the nineteenth-century French writer and critic Henry Marie Bayle. A major influence on the development of the modern novel, Stendhal's romantic, psychologically realistic works include The Red and the Black and The Charterhouse of Parma.