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12 unusual facts about Prosper Mérimée


Carl and Jack Cole

The first Coles Note published was for the French novel Colomba by Prosper Mérimée.

Grenoble Archaeological Museum

In the first half of the nineteenth century, three men will revive the architectural interest of this church, Jacques-Joseph Champollion-Figeac, Prosper Mérimée and Pierre Manguin.

Haydée

The libretto (in three acts) is by Auber's regular collaborator, Eugène Scribe and is based on a short story by Prosper Mérimée, La Partie de trictrac (1830).

La Périchole

Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy wrote the French-language libretto based on the 1829 one act play Le carrosse du Saint-Sacrement by Prosper Mérimée, which was revived on 13 March 1850 at the Théâtre-Français.

Leonardo Sbaraglia

Other starring roles of his include Deseo (Desire) (2002), a Gerardo Vera film in which he plays at the sides of Leonor Watling and Cecilia Roth, and Carmen (2003), an adaptation of Prosper Mérimée's classic by director Vicente Aranda.

Lust

Many writers, such as Georges Bataille, Casanova and Prosper Mérimée, have written works wherein scenes at bordellos and other unseemly locales take place.

María Manuela Kirkpatrick

Manuela also continued her friendship with Prosper Mérimée, whom she had met in Spain and who took great interest in the education of the girls.

Prosper Mérimée

La Vénus d'Ille (1837) - a fantastic horror tale of a bronze statue that seemingly comes to life.

In 1849, Mérimée was engaged in a successful protest campaign against the demolition of the Cité de Carcassonne.

Tintignac

The site was discovered in the 19th century and is ranked on list of protected List of historic monuments of 1840 after review by the inspector general of historical monuments, Prosper Mérimée and Abel Hugo.

Twilight of the Ice Nymphs

The screenplay was written by George Toles and inspired by the novel Pan (1894) by Knut Hamsen, with an additional literary touchstones being the short story "La Vénus d'Ille" (1837) by Prosper Mérimée.

University of Seville

Carmen was a fictional worker in the tobacco factory, the original story being a novella by Prosper Mérimée.


The Courts of Chaos

The allusions grow deep here however; the line in Lolita is itself an allusion to Bizet's Carmen as well as Mérimée's novella upon which it is based.

The Lady and the Unicorn

The tapestries were rediscovered in 1841 by Prosper Mérimée in Boussac castle (owned at the time by the subprefect of the Creuse) where they had been suffering damage from their storage conditions.

William Benjamin Sarsfield Taylor

He translated Prosper Mérimée's Art of Painting in Oil and Fresco (1839), and made an abridged translation of the Origin and Progress of the Penitentiary System in the United States (1833), from the report of Gustave de Beaumont and Alexis de Tocqueville.