He wrote of his own life at length in his Memoirs of Egotism and the autobiographical novel The Life of Henry Brulard.  
He had to yet to find his mature form in the novel Armance.  He wrote of his own life at length in his Memoirs of Egotism and the autobiographical novel The Life of Henry Brulard.  An influential analysis of love is given in his essay "On Love" and the Romantic movement is given a voice in his essay "Racine and Shakespeare."  He is best-known however for two novels that follow the lives of the flawed protagonists Fabrice del Dongo and Julien Sorel.  FTP, name this writer who served in the army of Napoleon, an experience he drew on in The Charterhouse of Parma and The Red and the Black.
He had to yet to find his mature form in the novel Armance.  
Stendhal (or Marie-Henri Beyle)