For 10 points, name this pseudonymous author of The Red and the Black.
This author described seducing his lovers by reading to them from Rousseau's The New Heloise in his autobiography, which he disguised as a "novel imitating The Vicar of Wakefield." In one novel by this author, a woman bribes jury members for acquittal votes to make up for her false authorship of a slanderous letter about the protagonist. In that novel by him, a carpenter's son becomes the tutor of the mayor's children, but loses his job when the mayor's adversary M. Valenod uncovers his affair with the mayor's wife. This author of The Life of Henry Brulard is best known for his novel about a character who seduces Mathilde de la Mole, and shoots his former mistress Mme. de Renal. For 10 points, name this pseudonymous author of The Red and the Black.
This author described seducing his lovers by reading to them from Rousseau's The New Heloise in his autobiography, which he disguised as a "novel imitating The Vicar of Wakefield."
Stendhal [or Marie-Henri Beyle]