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“Arrigo Beyle,” an adopted Milanese after his participation in Bonaparte’s “liberation” of Italy, was well acquainted with the culture of Germany, where he lived for a little over two years. And yet despite this Germanic pseudonym and his frequent references to German artists and thinkers, Beyle’s view of the German speaking countries remained conventional. It was not until after the 1830s, as a reader and contributor to the Revue de deux mondes, where Heine and Quinet warned against Prussian nationalism, that Stendhal’s views began to evolve.