# The Charterhouse of Parma — Chapters explained

> Chapter companions for The Charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal.

- [To the Reader](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_charterhouse_of_parma_se/chapters/to-the-reader.md): The author explains the origins of the story, which was written in the winter of 1830, far from Paris, and based on a tale told by a Canon's nephew in Padua. The narrative is drawn from the Canon's journal and concerns t
- [The Charterhouse of Parma](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_charterhouse_of_parma_se/chapters/the-charterhouse-of-parma.md): The final chapter depicts Fabrizio's retreat to the Charterhouse of Parma after the death of his son Sandrino and Clelia's vow to never see him again. He spends a year in pious solitude, visited occasionally by the Duche
- [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_charterhouse_of_parma_se/chapters/i.md): The chapter opens with the entry of General Bonaparte into Milan on May 15, 1796, marking a dramatic shift in Lombard society from a sleepy, despotically ruled state to a passionate, heroic age. It introduces the del Don
- [II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_charterhouse_of_parma_se/chapters/ii.md): Fabrizio, determined to join Napoleon, receives money and diamonds from his mother and sisters, then flees to Switzerland and on to Paris, where he is robbed by false friends. He buys horses and a servant and heads to th
- [III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_charterhouse_of_parma_se/chapters/iii.md): Fabrizio, after being robbed and betrayed, wanders the battlefield in search of his regiment. He meets a kind vivandière who feeds him and advises him on soldiering. He buys a new horse and eventually joins an escort of 

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- [IV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_charterhouse_of_parma_se/chapters/iv.md)
- [V](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_charterhouse_of_parma_se/chapters/v.md)
- [VI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_charterhouse_of_parma_se/chapters/vi.md)
- [VII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_charterhouse_of_parma_se/chapters/vii.md)
- [Chapter VIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_charterhouse_of_parma_se/chapters/viii.md)
- [Chapter IX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_charterhouse_of_parma_se/chapters/ix.md)
- [Chapter X](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_charterhouse_of_parma_se/chapters/x.md)
- [Chapter XI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_charterhouse_of_parma_se/chapters/xi.md)
- [Chapter XII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_charterhouse_of_parma_se/chapters/xii.md)
- [Chapter XIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_charterhouse_of_parma_se/chapters/xiii.md)
- [XIV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_charterhouse_of_parma_se/chapters/xiv.md)
- [Chapter XV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_charterhouse_of_parma_se/chapters/xv.md)
- [XVI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_charterhouse_of_parma_se/chapters/xvi.md)
- [Chapter XVII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_charterhouse_of_parma_se/chapters/xvii.md)
- [Chapter XVIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_charterhouse_of_parma_se/chapters/xviii.md)
- [Chapter XIX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_charterhouse_of_parma_se/chapters/xix.md)
- [Chapter XX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_charterhouse_of_parma_se/chapters/xx.md)
- [Chapter XXI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_charterhouse_of_parma_se/chapters/xxi.md)
- [XXII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_charterhouse_of_parma_se/chapters/xxii.md)
- [Chapter XXIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_charterhouse_of_parma_se/chapters/xxiii.md)
- [XXIV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_charterhouse_of_parma_se/chapters/xxiv.md)
- [XXV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_charterhouse_of_parma_se/chapters/xxv.md)
- [XXVI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_charterhouse_of_parma_se/chapters/xxvi.md)
- [Chapter XXVII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_charterhouse_of_parma_se/chapters/xxvii.md)
- [Chapter XXVIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_charterhouse_of_parma_se/chapters/xxviii.md)
- [Appendix](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_charterhouse_of_parma_se/chapters/appendix.md)
- [Endnotes](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_charterhouse_of_parma_se/chapters/endnotes.md)

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