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- Prosper Mérimée (born Sept. 28, 1803, Paris—died Sept. 23, 1870, Cannes, Fr.) was a French dramatist, historian, archaeologist, and master of the short story whose works— Romantic in theme but Classical and controlled in style—were a renewal of Classicism in a Romantic age.
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Prosper Mérimée was a French dramatist, historian, archaeologist, and master of the short story whose works—Romantic in theme but Classical and controlled in style—were a renewal of Classicism in a Romantic age.
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Prosper Mérimée (French: [pʁɔspɛʁ meʁime]; 28 September 1803 – 23 September 1870) was a French writer in the movement of Romanticism, one of the pioneers of the novella, a short novel or long short story.
Biography. Image: gallica.bnf.fr / Bibliothèque nationale de France: Detailed biography in French { merimee.culture.fr }
May 21, 2018 · Prosper Mérimée. The French author Prosper Mérimée (1803-1870) was a prose writer of the romantic period in France, important for his short stories, which mark the transition from romanticism toward the more objective works of the second half of the century. Prosper Mérimée, a Parisian born and bred, grew up with the other French romantics.
Biography. Prosper Mérimée was the only child of a comfortable middle-class couple, both of whom were artists by profession and freethinking republicans in outlook. Growing up in Paris, and in...
Prosper Mérimée, (born Sept. 28, 1803, Paris, France—died Sept. 23, 1870, Cannes), French short-story writer and dramatist. In youth a student of languages and literatures, he wrote his first play, Cromwell (1922), at age 19. His passions were mysticism, history, and the unusual.
L’inspecteur des Monuments historiques et des Antiquités nationales. Le 27 mai 1834, Thiers, ministre de l’Intérieur, nomme Prosper Mérimée au poste d’inspecteur général des Monuments historiques laissé vacant par le départ de Ludovic Vitet.
