Mérimée
[ mey-ree-mey ]
/ meɪ riˈmeɪ /
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noun
Pros·per [praw-sper], /prɔˈspɛr/, 1803–70, French short-story writer, novelist, and essayist.
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Mérimée
/ (French merime) /
noun
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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