Mérimée

American  

[mey-ree-mey] / meɪ riˈmeɪ /

noun

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

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Mérimée British  

/ merime /

noun

1. 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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Example Sentences

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

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

From The New Yorker • Aug. 1, 2016

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

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

From Seattle Times • Oct. 5, 2011

Writers like Prosper Mérimée or Mr. Robert Louis Stevenson can be not inadequately represented by a short story or a brief scene.

From Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 by Various