Lamiel

He then returned to Paris, where he remained till eighteen forty-two, where he died suddenly at the age of fifty-nine in the full swing of all his mental and physical activities.

His later works include La Chartreuse de Parme, Lucien, Luquin, and Lamiel, of which The Chartreuse is the most celebrated, but Lamiel certainly the most sprightly.

But it is on Le Rouge et le Noir that his fame as a novelist is the most firmly based.

It is with this most personal document, this record of his experiences and emotions, that he lives identified, just as D'Annunzio will live identified with Il Fuoco or Mr.