Mérimée

[ mey-ree-mey ]

noun

1. Pros·per [p, r, aw-, sper], 1803–70, French short-story writer, novelist, and essayist.

Mérimée

/ merime /

noun

1. MériméeProsper18031870MFrenchWRITING: novelistTHEATRE: dramatistWRITING: short-story writer 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

Example Sentences

Merimee says of George Sand that he has known her "maigre comme un clou et noire comme une taupe."

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There are fine things in Balzac and passages in Merimee which strike one like a keen blast of sea air.

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She tells of her intimacy with Merimee, an intimacy which was of short duration and very unsatisfactory.

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It is as clear and precise as Merimee, and it has all the color and imagination that he lacks to make him a poet.

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Merimee had a certain fascination of manner, and the predatory instincts of George Sand were again aroused.

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