"Ce sera la noblesse de leur style qui, dans quarante ans, rendra illisibles nos écrivains de 1840."
— Stendhal

January 1, 1970

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It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now. — Marginalia note, first edition of La Chartreuse de Parme (1840)