French novelist Stendhal, Marie-Henri Beyle, was born in Grenoble in 1783 and died in Paris in 1842. This growing collection of his manuscripts includes new transcripts and annotations by literary scholars is from the Universite Stendhal in Grenoble and Grenoble's public library.
Unfortunately, the manuscripts of 2 of his most famous novels, Le Rouge et le noir (The Red and the Black), 1830 and La Chartreuse de Parme (The Charterhouse of Parma), 1839 are not included as the original drafts no longer exist.