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    displayed. The official database of French monuments, the Base Mérimée, bears his name. Prosper Mérimée was born in Paris, the First French Republic, on 28 September...
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    Carmen (novella) (category Works by Prosper Mérimée)
    Carmen is a novella by Prosper Mérimée, written and first published in 1845. It has been adapted into a number of dramatic works, including the famous...
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  • 2020. "Prosper Mérimée: sauveur de patrimoine". Balades et Patrimoine. 16 February 2015. Retrieved 13 December 2020. Media related to Base Mérimée at Wikimedia...
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  • (later made into a 1958 film) of a slave ship revolt by French author Prosper Mérimée. Nicola Busca. "BBC - Travel - Italy's mysterious hallucinogenic drink"...
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    women could attend as well as men. There, in 1822 or 1823, Eugène met Prosper Mérimée, a writer who would play a decisive role in his career. In 1825 he...
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    Carmen (category Operas based on works by Prosper Mérimée)
    Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, based on the novella of the same title by Prosper Mérimée. The opera was first performed by the Opéra-Comique in Paris on 3 March...
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    (1841) was followed by a tour in Greece and Italy, in company with Prosper Mérimée, Jean de Witte and Charles Lenormant. This bore fruit in his Voyage...
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    Mateo Falcone (category Works by Prosper Mérimée)
    Mateo Falcone is an 1829 short story by Prosper Mérimée. It first appeared in the May issue of Revue de Paris. Its tightly focused narrative was well...
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  • and allure. After a flamenco show, Antonio gifts Carmen a book by Prosper Mérimée, urging her to read it, convinced she's destined for the role. He then...
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    Coombes. Mérimée, Prosper; Verelst, Myndart; Saltus, Edgar Evertson (1887). Tales before supper, from Théophile Gautier and Prosper Mérimée;. University...
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  • the classic romance of the same name by Prosper Mérimée. Director Vicente Aranda based the plot on Mérimée's original 1847 novella about jealousy and...
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  • 1948. The first title published was on the French novella Colomba by Prosper Mérimée. In 1958, Jack Cole and Carl Cole, founders of Coles, sold the U.S...
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    Bizet's 1875 opera Carmen. The opera was an adaptation of the 1845 Prosper Mérimée novella Carmen by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy. Carmen Jones was...
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    Tamango (category Films based on works by Prosper Mérimée)
    Alex Cressan and Jean Servais. Based on a short story written by Prosper Mérimée that was first published in 1829, the film concerns a slave ship on...
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    century by the writer Prosper Mérimée, inspector-general of historical monuments, by a first list established in 1840. In 1851, Mérimée organized the Missions...
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    Klaus Mann (1906–1949), German writer. Son of writer Thomas Mann. Prosper Mérimée (1803–1870), writer Jacques Monod (1910–1976), biochemist, Nobel Prize...
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    La Périchole (category Operas based on works by Prosper Mérimée)
    story is based loosely on the play Le carrosse du Saint-Sacrement by Prosper Mérimée (1828), and the title character is based on the Peruvian entertainer...
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    Rue de l'Ouest. The list of his sitters includes Alexandre Dumas, Prosper Mérimée, Sir Walter Scott, Jacques-Louis David, Alfred de Musset, Charles Augustin...
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  • (1799–1850) Victor Hugo (1802–1885) Alexandre Dumas, père (1802–1870) Prosper Mérimée (1803–1870) Alfred de Musset (1810–1857) Théophile Gautier (1811–1872)...
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    successful operas of all time, La Traviata, by Giuseppe Verdi (1853). Prosper Mérimée was another important figure in the romantic movement. His romantic...
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    numerous bandits, whose deeds inspired artists such as Washington Irving, Prosper Mérimée, and Gustave Doré. In the 19th century, the economy of Ronda was mainly...
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    Romanticism, stating that "there are no rules, or models". The career of Prosper Mérimée followed a similar pattern; he is now best known as the originator...
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    directed by Cecil B. DeMille. The film is based on the novella Carmen by Prosper Mérimée. The existing versions of this film appear to be from the re-edited...
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    grandchildren, one of which would later give birth to her great-grandchild, Prosper Mérimée. De Beaumont's version of the classic folktale, Beauty and the Beast...
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    film era, her best known films are Colomba (1915), from the novel by Prosper Mérimée, The Purple Lady (1916), with her husband, Victor Hugo's Les Miserábles...
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  • Bizet. Carmen may also refer to: Carmen (novella), an 1845 novella by Prosper Mérimée and the basis for Bizet's opera Carmen (1913 film), by Stanner E. V...
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    late 18th century, and in 1825 through the initiative of the writer Prosper Mérimée, the change to national historical monument began. In 1826, expropriation...
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  • setting. Bizet's opera was, in turn, based on the 1846 novella by Prosper Mérimée. The Broadway musical was produced by Billy Rose, using an all-black...
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    until at least the age of forty. A rumour was initiated by writer Prosper Mérimée that she suffered from a physical condition which made the act of sexual...
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  • (1802–1885), author of The Hunchback of Notre-Dame and Les Misérables Prosper Mérimée (1803–1870), author of Carmen Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve (1804–1869)...
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