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Appendix · The Charterhouse of Parma

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  Section thirty five of the Charterhouse of Palmer by Stendahl, translated by C.
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  K. Scott Montcrief. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain, read
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  by Peter Dan Appendix. This translation of La chatrese de pam has been made
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  from the reprint of two volumes of the first edition Paris Leisadicion, G.
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  Gray a c. Nineteen twenty two, with reference also to the stereotyped edition
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  published by M. M. Calman Levy and to the reprint issued by Monsieur
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  Flamarion in his series Le Mayeur or Tour Classique nineteen twenty one. I am
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  also indebted to the extremely literal version by Senora Maria Ortiz Biblioteca Sansoniana Straniera Lacetosa
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  di pamer G. C. Sanzoni, Ferenz, nineteen twenty two, which
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  has thrown a ray of light on several dark passages. The chartres was written
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  in and not a distance of three hundred leagues from Paris, and in the
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  short interval between November fourth, eighteen thirty eight and December twenty sixth of that
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  year, so much the author reveals in a note which I do not translate,
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  the Shah made for Novembre eighteen thirty eight twenty six de Sombre e d.
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  The third September eighteen thirty eight. I had the idea of the Shah.
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  I beginned it after a tour in Brittany. I suppose or to the
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  Havre, I begin the fourth November till the twenty sixth de Sombre. The
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  twenty sixth de Thambre. I send the sixth Senor me Cair to cool for
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  le fervoir to the bookseller. His object in pretending to have written the book
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  in eighteen thirty may have been to establish a prescriptive immunity from any charge of
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  producing the government of Louis Philippe. If so, it is by a characteristic
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  slip that he speaks of having written it towards the end of eighteen thirty col
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  Otherwise, Romank gulon Bo's executor relates in the Notis Biographique prefixed to Armans that
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  in January eighteen thirty nine, while the Chatreuse was going through the press,
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  a k year of sixty pages of the manuscript was mislaid, unable to find
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  it among the mass of papers that littered his room. Bail rewrote the sixty
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  pages, and the new version was already in type when he told gulamb of
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  his loss. Gulam At once searched for and found the missing Cayir, whereupon
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  Bail, stupefied by the ease of my discovery, dreading in a sense the
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  sight of this manuscript, would not even glance over it, much less compare
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  it with the pages that had taken its place. It was published in March
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  eighteen thirty nine. In the same year, Bail began to correct, reduce,
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  and amplify the whole work, before he was moved by Balzac's criticism to
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  condense the first fifty four pages into four or five. Three copies thus annotated
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  are in existence, one of which has been reprided uced in facsimile in an
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  extremely limited edition Paris Eduard Champion, three volumes, nineteen twenty one, one
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  hundred copies only. In nineteen o four, Monsieur Casimir Strallensky reprinted in the
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  first volume of Les Soiree d stendar Club Mercieur de France. The two fragments,
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  of which a translation follows. The first is intended for inclusion in chapter
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  five in the Brief Account of Fabrizio's convalescence at Armion. Colonel LeBaron, the
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  wounded officer whom he met and left at the White Horse Inn at the end
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  of chapter four, is now reintroduced as returning to his family at Armion,
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  and a story is told then which supersedes the account of General Pietronia's death in
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  chapter two. The second fragment is a small expansion of the already over long
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  Chapter six. Visitors to Palmer will look in vain for most of the architectural
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  monuments which met the gaze of Fabrizio, The Torrefanesa has never existed, though
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  it may have been suggested as to mass by the huge fragment of the Palazzo
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  Fanesa at Piacenza, as well as by the Castel Santangelo in Rome, and
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  as to origin by the story of Parussina and Ugodeste told in English by Gibbon
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  and Byron. In appearance, it would have been not unlike the tower also
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  damaged by an earthquake, which stands in the background of Montaigne's fresco of the
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  Martyrdom of Saint James in the Church of the Eremitani at Padua. The problem
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  of how a road running out of Parma to the south could lead directly to
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  Succa, and the po is as insoluble as that of the guarded permission given
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  to Fabrizio in eighteen fifteen to read the novels of Walter Scott. The Steccata,
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  of course exists, and the Church of San Giovanni, but the latter
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  is singularly bare of monumental tombs. There is even a charter house at San
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  Lazzaro Pamenze, though it has escaped the attention of Bideca. There were Fanasa,
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  but the last of them died of the pleasures of the table in seventeen
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  thirty one. A portrait of him in his corpulence may be seen by the
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  curious, and the real galleria in the Pileeta another large Fanesa palace also unfinished.
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  There is indeed a cathedral, but there is no archbishop, and the
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  bishop's palace as an untidy piece of patched up antiquity. It is probable that
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  Baale was led to place the scene of his story at Palma, which in
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  Rome, Naples and Florence he had dismissed, not unjustly as Villa dayeu Asse
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  Platt, precisely because there was not in eighteen thirty eight any reigning dynasty in
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  that state. The Duchy of Palmer was held and admirably governed by Marie Louise,
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  the wife and widow of Napoleon, from eighteen fifteen until after Bale's death
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  in eighteen forty three, when she was still in the prime of life,
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  being by some years his junior. Suddenly in eighteen forty seven she died.
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  The Bourbon Dinners, which had been transplanted to the brief Kingdom of Vitruria,
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  and in eighteen fourteen had been placated with the Republic of Lucca as a temporary
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  duchy, which Charles the Second had finally sold a few months earlier to its
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  legal heir, The Grand Duke of Tuscany, returned and rapidly converted Stendaal's fiction
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  into historical fact. Charles the Second was almost at once obliged to abdicate his
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  son, Charles the Third, proceeded to emulate the career of Ranuccio Enesto the
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  Fourth, until in eighteen fifty four he met a similar fate. His widow,
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  a daughter of the Duke de Berry, then acted as regent for her
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  son, Robert the first until in eighteen fifty nine the Risorgimento swept them forever
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  from their duchy. Duke Robert died in nineteen o seven, the father of
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  twenty children, one of whom Prince sixth to Bourbon Palm, showed in the
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  late war some reflection of the spirit of Fabrizio Deldono, as the curious English
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  reader may find in my transitation of his lutriche La pey Separai Austrious Peace Offer,
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  London Constable and Co. Limited, nineteen twenty one. Another is the
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  Empress Zita, while a third has re established the Bourbon dynasty in Northern Europe
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  by becoming the father of the hereditary Grand Duke of Luxembourg. Francesco Hiez,
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  the Milanese painter, immortalized by his decoration of the Palazzo Crescenzi and by his
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  portrait of Fabrizio del Dogno, died at a great age in eighteen eighty two,
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  having outlived the date appointed by bail for his own immortality. C K.
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  S. M end of Section thirty five