This is an 1830 novel by the French novelist Stendhal, also well-known for The Red and the Black. This novel follows a young Italian minor noble who decides to go off to fight on Napoleon’s side only to first be accused and imprisoned as a suspected spy, and then to show up just in time for the Battle of Waterloo. As he escapes he is brought with his family to the city-state of Parma where he befriends the Prince, gets into an informal duel over […]