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  1. Prosper Mérimée ( French: [pʁɔspɛʁ meʁime]; 28 September 1803 – 23 September 1870) [1] was a French writer in the movement of Romanticism, one of the pioneers of the novella, a short novel or long short story. He was also a noted archaeologist and historian, an important figure in the history of architectural preservation.

    • 23 September 1870 (aged 66), Cannes, France
  2. Mar 26, 2024 · 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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  3. Prosper Mérimée, né le 28 septembre 1803 à Paris et mort le 23 septembre 1870 à Cannes, est un écrivain, historien et archéologue français . Issu d'un milieu bourgeois et artiste, Prosper Mérimée fait des études de droit avant de s'intéresser à la littérature et de publier dès 1825 des textes, en particulier des nouvelles, qui le ...

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  4. For the full article, see Prosper Mérimée . 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.

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  6. Prosper Mérimée was a French writer in the movement of Romanticism, one of the pioneers of the novella, a short novel or long short story. He was also a noted archaeologist and historian, an important figure in the history of architectural preservation. He is best known for his novella Carmen, which became the basis of Bizet's opera Carmen. He learned Russian, a language for which he had ...

  7. Carmen, novella about Spanish Gypsy life by French author Prosper Mérimée, first published serially in 1845. Georges Bizet’s opera Carmen is based on the story. As a hot-blooded young corporal in the Spanish cavalry stationed near Seville, Don José is ordered to arrest Carmen, a young, flirtatious.

  8. 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.

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