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  In August 2022, when we were still living in the shadow of Covid, I was contacted by Charles Boyle, the London writer and publisher, author (under the pseudonym Jack Robinson) of a novel about Henri Beyle [aka Stendhal]—An Overcoat:Scenes from the Afterlife of H.B. …

 I had no plan to write a novel of any kind when I retired, let alone a historical biofiction, and it was sheer accident that started me on this path. I was reading the private diaries of the 19th century French novelist Henri Beyle, who …