# Le rouge et le noir: chronique du XIXe siècle

By Stendhal.

"Le rouge et le noir: chronique du XIXe siècle" by Stendhal is a novel published in 1830. It follows Julien Sorel, an ambitious young man from provincial France who dreams of becoming a new Napoleon. Through his positions as tutor and secretary, he enters bourgeois and aristocratic society, where he becomes entangled in passionate affairs with two women: Madame de Rênal and Mathilde de La Mole. His rise from carpenter's son to nobleman tests the boundaries between ambition, hypocrisy, and authentic feeling in nineteenth-century France. (Summary by Project Gutenberg, written by machine.)

- Language: French
- Subjects: Bildungsromans; France -- Fiction; Young men -- France -- Fiction; Ambition -- Fiction; Church and state -- Fiction

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## Audiobooks of it

- [Rouge et le noir](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/books/librivox/11650) by Stendhal (18 h 39 min, French)

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