Birth, rise and fall of a hero, Julien Sorel; Mixed feelings finely described by Henri Beyle, Stendhal, in one of the key novels of the 19th century: love that transforms into self-love, passion into ambition, generosity, enthusiasm, hypocrisy ... 1824-1830. France, the great beast of nineteenth-century Europe: an old regime that refuses to die after the turnaround caused by the French Revolution, a Roman church that does not want to lose its influence, the different currents of thought, the exchange and mixing of classes social, the legitimate aspiration of the popular classes to rise in the social ladder, the old and the new aristocrats ... and Napoleon as background, example and guide of the young generations.