Stendhal: The Red and the Black and the Charterhouse of Parma

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Roger Pearson is Professor of Frenchat the University of Oxford and a Fellow of The Queen’s College, Oxford He is a Fellow of the British Academy and Officier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques