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    The Privileges
    The Privileges
    The Privileges
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    The Privileges

    By Stendhal

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    "On 1 February and 1 June of every year the clothes of the favored man shall become as they were the third time he wore them."

    "The Privileges" is a brief collection of the favors Stendhal, not long before his death, would have had a god bestow on him. Translated by Juan LePuen.

    Genre: miscellany
    Length: 1,700 words
    Date of English translation: 2012.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFario
    Release dateJul 6, 2012
    ISBN9781476058368
    The Privileges
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    Stendhal

    Pen name of Marie-Henri Beyle, 1783-1842 Best known for _The Red and the Black_ and _The Charterhouse of Parma_.

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