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Milan. The culture and landscape of Italy were the revelation that was to play a psychologically and
thematically determining role in his life and works.
In 1802 the 19-year-old Henri Beyle was back in Paris and at work on a number of literary projects,
none of which he completed. He dreamed of becoming a modern Molière, enrolled in drama classes,
worked at ridding himself of his provincial accent, and fell in love with a second-rate actress (Mélanie
Louason), whom he followed to Marseille. By then he was keeping a diary (posthumously published
as his Journal) and writing other texts dealing with his intimate thoughts.
The year 1806 proved to be a turning point. Count Pierre Daru, having been appointed intendant-
general of Napoleon's army, had his young protégé sent as an adjunct military commissary to the
German city of Brunswick. This was the beginning of an administrative career in the French army that
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