As is well known, Stendhal closes

La Cartuja de Parma

with an enigmatic dedication:

"To the happy few

.

"

He took these words from a Shakespearean tragedy and quotes them in their original language, knowing that only a small fraction of his French readers will understand them. It is not the purpose of this article to elucidate who is part of such a restricted club ("a few happy, to those chosen readers who will read me in eighty years, because today I have none ", comes to say) nor s

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