Prosper Mérimée , born in Paris the September 28th 1803 and died in Cannes the September 23rd 1870, is a writer, Historien and an archeologist French.

Mérimée liked the Mysticisme, the Histoire and the unusual one. It was influenced by the historical fiction popularized by Walter Scott and the cruelty and the psychological dramas of Alexandre Pouchkine. Often, the stories which he tells are full with mysteries and take place abroad, the Spain and the Russia being frequent sources of inspiration. One of its New S.A. inspired the opera Carmen .

Biography

Prosper Mérimée, who was accepted lawyer, studied the Droit as well as many languages: Greek, Arab, English and Russian. He is one of the first translators of the Russian language in French.

In 1834, it succeeds Ludovic Vitet as general inspector of the Historic buildings and it is at this time that it asked Viollet the Duke to carry out one of his first restorations of building in France. The father of Prosper Mérimée occupied the function of secretary in the same establishment. He preserves this function until in 1860. He accomplished all his voyages before the end of the installation of the railroad.

He is elected member of the Académie of the inscriptions and the humanities in 1843, and of the French Academy in 1844.

Having taken makes and causes for his/her friend the count Libri, Mérimée is condemned to fifteen days of prison and thousand francs of fine and is écroué on July 4th 1852 with the Conciergerie. Its death had been declared in all the capital whereas he had not died yet. A denial published in Le Figaro finally destroyed the rumor.

In 1830, Mérimée meets in Spain the Countess De Montijo with whom he sympathizes. When the girl of the countess becomes the Impératrice Eugenie in France in 1853, Mérimée becomes Senator.

Works

• the Theater of Clara Gazul : literary hoax presented like the translation of Spanish parts by a certain Joseph Lestrange (1825)
• Guzla (1827)
• Tamango (1829)
• the Jacquerie (1828)
• Chronic of the reign of Charles IX , novel (1829)
• Mateo Falcone (1829)
• Mosaic (1833): collection of news
• hearts of the purgatory (1834): history of the fisherman Juan de Maraña
• Notes of voyages (1835-40): describing its voyage through Greece, Spain, Turkey and France.
• Venus d' Ille (1837)
• Colomba (1840): one of its most famous news which reports the history of young Corsica pushing his brother to avenge death for their father
• Carmen (1845): the famous news which was used as a basis for the opera of Georges Bizet in 1875
• Dictée of Mérimée written in 1857 at the request of the Impératrice Eugenie.
• Lokis (1869), inspired of a Lithuanian legend: history of a being born of a woman and a bear.
• the blue Room (1866)
• Letters with an unknown factor (1874): a collection of letters of Mérimée with Jenny Dacquin published after her death.
• Christmas (1875)

; Translations of Russian

• the Queen of spades (" Пиковаядама"), the Gipsies (" Цыганы"), Hussard (" Гусар"), of Alexandre Pouchkine (1852).
• the General inspector (" Ревизор") of Nicolas Gogol (1853).
• the Blow of gun (" Выстрел") of Pouchkine (1856).
• Appearances (" Призраки") of Ivan Tourgueniev (1866).

The Mérimée base

Starting from 1834, Prosper Mérimée starts to make count on the whole of the French territory the remarkable architectural units. In its honor, the ministry for the Culture and Communication created the Base Mérimée, which counts the whole of the historic buildings and, beyond, the remarkable architectural heritage.

Criticism

• the critic Charles Of the Boss (1882-1939) inimitable judge natural sound in transcription of the completely unspecified remarks which escape during a conversation, a kind of banality of good quality.

Literary sources

Mérimée and medicine by Charlotte Fruton (Thesis of doctorate in medicine - 1938)

Related articles

• Venus d' Ille

External bonds

• Biographical note of the French Academy
• Site of the French Ministry of the culture on Mérimée
• Prosper Mérimée and the monumental inheritance on Culture.fr
• architectural Base Mérimée
• Works of Prosper Mérimée in numerical reading
• various Works on Ebooks
• Texts on line: '' A woman is a devil '' '' the sky and the hell '' B. '' '' It Viccolo di Madama Lucrezia '' '' Carmen '', '' Colomba '' '' Venus d' Ille ''

Simple: Prosper Mérimée

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