He is the son of a carpenter, who lives in the fictional town of Verrières, in Franche-Comté. In the first book, Stendhal gives Julien Sorel’s origins. The novel reaches its climax with Julien's trial for attempted murder, from which trial his victim herself tries to save him. The story's setting gives Stendhal ample room to criticize, and, frequently, satirize this society he does both with gusto. The Red and the Black follows the rise and fall of Julien Sorel, a bright and ambitious, but in many ways naïve, young man of lowly birth, who resolves to work his way up in society – a difficult thing to do in the highly stratified France of the Bourbon Restoration (1815-1830). The Red and the Black (in French, Le Rouge et le Noir: Chronique du XIX siècle ) is an 1830 two-volume historical novel by Marie-Henri Beyle, better known by the pen name Stendhal.
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