Question
The first of this novel's chapter epigraphs, which reads "put thousands together less bad, but the cage less gay," is wrongly attributed to Thomas Hobbes. In this novel, a man misses the forests of Vergy ("vair-ZHEE") while imprisoned after firing two shots in a church. A Voltaire-reading woman uses a marble tomb to hold a human head in this novel, which is subtitled (*) "Chronicle of the Nineteenth Century." After his affair is exposed by Valenod ("vah-luh-noh"), this novel's protagonist works at a seminary with Abbé Pirard ("ah-BAY pih-RAR"). At the end of this novel, Mathilde de la Mole ("mah-TEELD duh lah MOHL") and Madame de Rênal ("mah-DAHM duh reh-NAL") both fail to stop the execution of Julien Sorel ("zhoo-lee-ahn soh-REL"). For 10 points, the clergy and the army are represented by what Stendhal ("stond-ahl") novel's two title colors? ■END■
ANSWER: The Red and the Black [or Red and Black or Scarlet and Black or Le Rouge et le Noir: Chronique du XIXe Siècle]
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