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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.

  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.

  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.

  4. 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.

  5. May 21, 2018 · 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.

  6. Sep 28, 2023 · Prosper Mérimée, a French writer, government official, and defender of France's architectural heritage, was born Sep. 28, 1803. He was quite well known in contemporary literary circles and he participated in most of the important salons in the assorted republics and empires through which he lived.

  7. 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...

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