Armance

Armance (1827). Stendhal's first novel. The noble Octave de Malivert is in love with his cousin Armance de Zohiloff. The strange and beautifully written story plots the psychological vicissitudes of their love, set against a satirically observed background of aristocratic society. The two lovers are typically Stendhalian superior beings, but the secret of Octave's eccentric melancholy, never disclosed to Armance or to the reader, but evident from the author's correspondence, is that he is impotent. After a brief ‘mariage blanc’, he takes poison and dies; Armance retires to a convent.

[Peter France]

Armance may refer to:

• Armance, a novel published by Stendhal in 1827.
• Armance, a commune of the Meurthe-et-Moselle département in France.
• Armance, a commune of the Haute-Saône département in France.
• Armance, a commune of the Aube département in France.

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