Mérimée

American  

[mey-ree-mey] / meɪ riˈmeɪ /

noun

1. Prosper 1803–70, French short-story writer, novelist, and essayist.

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Mérimée British  

/ merime /

noun

1. Prosper (prɔspɛr). 1803–70, French novelist, dramatist, and short-story writer, noted particularly for his short novels Colomba (1840) and Carmen (1845), on which Bizet's opera was based

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Example Sentences

The company will bring Johan Inger’s “Carmen,” a stark interpretation of the Prosper Mérimée novella that inspired both the Bizet opera and a 1967 ballet by Alberto Alonso.

From New York Times

A man of immense charm, Phelps had persuaded an editor at McGraw-Hill to bring out a new collection of the best short stories of Prosper Merimée.

From Washington Post

Instead, it bombed and all the editor’s other contracts — including the Merimée — were canceled.

From Washington Post

In France, the writer Prosper Mérimée became the second inspector general of a newly established Commission on Historic Monuments, tasked with determining what elements of the nation’s architectural heritage should be preserved, and in what manner restored.

From The New Yorker

Through her, she met literary greats such as Stendhal, Hugo, Prosper Merimee and Chateaubriand.

From BBC