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Prosper Mérimée
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I would willingly give Thucydides for some authentic memoirs by Aspasia or by a slave of Pericles.
— A Chronicle of the Reign of Charles IX, translated and edited by Prof. George Saintsbury (1906), page v
Prosper Mérimée
French writer, archaeologist and historian (1803–1870)
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He wrote the novella that became the opera Carmen, but spent thirty years as France's chief monument inspector — saving Carcassonne's medieval walls, restoring Notre-Dame's façade, and pulling The Lady and the Unicorn tapestries from obscurity.
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Prosper Mérimée was born in Paris on 28 September 1803 and moved through Romanticism as a pioneer of the novella form, writing compressed stories that carried full novelistic weight. His 1845 Carmen gave Bizet the bones for an opera that would outlive them both. But from 1830 to 1860 he held a parallel life as inspector of French historical monuments, a post that sent him across the country marking what deserved to survive: he secured the medieval citadel of Carcassonne, oversaw the restoration of Notre-Dame de Paris's façade, and with George Sand identified a set of fifteenth-century tapestri…
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