When he said he would be read in 1880 and understood in 1935, Stendhal could probably not have anticipated that already in 1866, the Great Universal Dictionary of the Nineteenth Century would devote a large article to him. The purpose of this presentation is to find evidence of that celebrated stendhalien “cult of energy” in the Dictionary of Stendhal by Yves Ansel, Philippe Berthier, and Michael Nerlich (H. Champion 2003) and in the Dictionary Smitten with Stendhal by Dominique Fernandez (Plon-Grasset, 2013).
