STENDHAL pseudonym of the French writer Henri Beyle (1783-1842), one of the most important representatives of realism. Highlights are Red and Black, The Charterhouse of Parma, Ammancy, of Love. He is famous for having anxiety attacks when he was facing a lot of beauty, which happened to him every time he was in Florence. When finally the pathology was determined, tachycardia, sweating, dizziness, pressure rise, this gave rise to Stendhal syndrome,