The Stendhal Collection in the Municipal Library of Grenoble

In 1861 the Grenoble Library inherited some 60 volumes of Stendhal's manuscripts. This unpublished collection has been exploited by researchers and librarians, and has revealed an unsuspected side to the writer. The administrators of the collection, complemented by the talents of several Stendhal scholars, have developed an on-going policy of continued acquisition and cataloguing of rare documents. This prestigious accumulation is complicated to access, and has therefore become the subject of a printed catalogue which will be followed by a computerized inventory. A reproduction policy will allow close examination of Stendhal's writing. By the expedient of a Stendhal museum, which it hopes to establish in a house of the writer, the Library is the repository of Stendhal's memory
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