Stendhal et les campagnes napoléoniennes

Abstract

Henri Beyle, who will further become Stendhal, has witnessed – and acted in – most of Napoléon’s military campaigns. He relates it in his diaries and in his private correspondence. In these complex documents, which can be considered half public half intimate and are sometimes contradictory, otherwise complementary, he tells us his experience of the major conflicts in the beginning of the nineteenth century in Europe. The comparison with the literary (biographic and novelistic) texts he will write years later is also quite interesting, since it shows how the mythicization is close to the hoax.

Keywords

• Stendhal
• Napoléon Bonaparte
• war
• history
• mythicization