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Referenced as a novel that captures adolescent hero worship of Napoleon by people yearning to lift themselves out of provincial mediocrity, in the context of discussing romantic admiration for Byron and Napoleon.

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Mentioned as an example of literature showing people living in Napoleon's shadow, in discussing whether Byron felt inadequate compared to Napoleon

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Referenced when discussing a scene in La Reine Margot where Margot holds her lover's severed head - 'which is lifted from Stendhal's The Scarlet and the Black'

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Mentioned as 19th century writer writing about events 20-30 years previous