Mérimée

American

[mey-ree-mey] / meɪ riˈmeɪ /

noun

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

Mérimée British

/ 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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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 • Dec. 17, 2021

On a rainy day in 1857, at Fontainebleau, the royal country estate, Empress Eugénie asked the author Prosper Mérimée to concoct an entertainment.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 1, 2016

Pivot’s competition was inspired by the dictée de Mérimée.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 1, 2016

That is how French writer Prosper Mérimée described the magnetic title character in his 1845 novella, "Carmen."

From Seattle Times • Oct. 5, 2011

Prosper Mérimée, notices of the works of, 695.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 by Various

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