-To print this articleThe founder of realism in French literature Stendhal believe, although he called himself a romantic, and creative manner indicated by the combination of elements of romanticism and realism. The topics for his novels of Stendhal chose the life of France from the Restoration period (“Red and black”).
In 1827 year, the court of Grenoble considered the case, caused a lot of noise. A young man, Antoine Berta was accused of the murder, what he, however, not denied. Here is a brief history of this young man.
The son of a village blacksmith, he was raised by the local priest. When he was 19 years, the priest appointed him tutor to wealthy familiesand Misha de Latour. Mr Misha was an industrialist. His wife was 36. What really happened in this house, nobody really knew. Or cared Burt young lady Misha? Or did she succumb to his harassment? This circumstance in the course of the investigation was not completely’s announced. Anyway, the young man had to leave this house. It's been a few months, and the old priest, which brought up Antoine, managed to get him to study in Seminary. The young man did not stay there long and was deleted because, which also remained unknown’asemanii.
Then he got a job as a tutor to an aristocratic family Abroad, however, after a year or two and was expelled from this house, because this time began to molest the daughter of the owner, Mademoiselle de Cordon. He tried to find another place, but in vain; experiencing persecution, it, in the end, came to the conclusion (right or wrong), he all denied due to the fact, that mistress Misha out of revenge or out of jealousy chased him and did libel. Bert could not earn a living, it is very unfortunate. He once took an unexpected decision: Sunday morning we went to the Church of a small town, in which lived a lady Misha; during lunch service, at the time of the wave offering of the Holy gifts, when lady Misha lowered her head, he shot her with a pistol. She fell, and Bert tried to shoot himself. He fell, bathed in blood’Yu. Andwow took, resulted in a sense. Ms. Mischa is not died. Survived and Bert; he was put on trial.
Imagine this is an extraordinary meeting of the jury; in the dock sat a young man in a black dress seminarian, his head wrapped in white bandages, because the wound is still not healed completely; the attorney General called him a monster, and he answers all the questions of the Prosecutor repeated:
-Kill me, condemn me to death, nothing more I ask!
The lawyer supported the words of his client:
-If I could help it pleas, I would not be here to protect him. He doesn't want to live. Why is his life, if he lost honor? He almost doesn't live, he personally sentenced yourself to death. Your sentence you will only help him to escape from the indescribable existence.