What is "stendhal"

Marie-Henri Beyle (; 23 January 1783 – 23 March 1842), better known by his pen name Stendhal ( or ; in English , , or ), was a 19th-century French writer. Best known for the novels Le Rouge et le Noir ( The Red and the Black, 1830) and La Chartreuse de Parme ( The Charterhouse of Parma, 1839), he is highly regarded for the acute analysis of his characters' psychology and considered one of the earliest and foremost practitioners of realism.