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10 Euros Julien Sorel
| Issuer | Monnaie de Paris |
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| Year | 2013 |
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| Value | 10 Euros |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Part of the Monnaie de Paris "Les Héros Littéraires" series, this piece honors Stendhal's protagonist from Le Rouge et le Noir (1830), a novel so politically charged at publication that Stendhal reportedly wrote it in 52 days to outrun censorship concerns under the Restoration. Julien Sorel's trajectory — provincial ambition colliding with Bourbon-era class rigidity — made the character a touchstone of 19th-century French social criticism.
The series paired literary figures with denominations scaled to collector rather than circulation use, issued under the broader French commemorative program that accelerated sharply after 2010.