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{{quote|''“La vérité, l’âpre vérité”''|'''Danton''' ''<ref>“The truth, the harsh truth”</ref>'' <ref>He never said that.</ref>}}

 

 

Julien Sorel is a young dreamer, preferring to read his books and daydream about Napoleon than to do something useful for his family. He becomes an acolyte and then obtains a job as a tutor in the prestigious house of Monsieur de Rênal, mayor of Verrières. However, he pays less attention to [[The Bible]] than to the mayor’s wife.

 

Of course, [[It Got Worse|things go downhill from there]].

* [[Altum Videtur]]: Julien can impress people citing memorized passages of the Bible in Latin. He pays little attention to the holy book beyond that.

* [[Anti-Hero]]/[[Villain Protagonist]]: Julien.

* [[Evil Jesuit]]: Averted with the abbé Pirard. Played straight with the rest.

* [[Gratuitous English]]: Some of the epigraphs are in untranslated English. In a straighter (albeit meta) example, it seems that Stendhal occasionally liked to insert English words into French sentences for no apparent reason. The notes he wrote on the blank pages following the end of Book I in his copy of the work illustrate this.

* [[Its Pronounced Tropay|It's Pronounced Tro PAY]]: The Comte de Thaler. His name is German and should be pronounced “Thalay” in France.

* [[May-December Romance]]: Julien starts an affair with Madame de Rênal.

 

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