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There is a spate of worshipful Web sites devoted to her, and a breathless and wildly premature biography by Kim Chernin and Renate Stendhal, Cecilia Bartoli: The Passion of Song , which describes her as "a sensuous, embodied angel, standing quietly on a concert stage as she report[s] back to God about the mysterious joys and sorrows of human existence."
My sense, based on reading Stendhal's On Love and a number of extraordinarily psychologically astute literary works by men, is that such a narrow perspective is most assuredly less natural than acquired.
Still, the patriotic reader plunges in--and instantly discovers, in the volume's first entry, a document of capital importance in re the insidious, Gallically anti-American accusation offered by Stendhal's novel.
But most great historical fiction--George Eliot, Stendhal, Tolstoy--is not written in "historical" prose.
It was the cult of Napoleon in the 19 th century, a young man's craze that went on for generations--the craze that Stendhal described in his character Julien Sorel in The Red and the Black and Victor Hugo in his character Marius in Les Misérables . In the 19 th century, intelligent people in France knew perfectly well that Napoleon had embodied the worst aspects of the French Revolution, had betrayed the revolution's democratic ideals, and had spread death and fire from Spain to Moscow.