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Prosper Mérimée

1803 - 1870

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Prosper Mérimée (French: [pʁɔspɛʁ meʁime]; 28 September 1803 – 23 September 1870) was a French writer in the movement of Romanticism, one of the pioneers of the novella, a short novel or long short story. He was also a noted archaeologist and historian, an important figure in the history of architectural preservation. He is best known for his novella Carmen, which became the basis of Bizet's opera Carmen. He learned Russian, a language for which he had great affection, before translating the work of several notable Russian writers, including Pushkin and Gogol, into French. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Prosper Mérimée is the 243rd most popular writer (down from 226th in 2019), the 280th most popular biography from France (down from 277th in 2019) and the 44th most popular French Writer.

Prosper Mérimée is most famous for his story "Carmen" which was turned into an opera by Georges Bizet.

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Among writers, Prosper Mérimée ranks 243 out of 7,302. Before him are William Blake, Truman Capote, Lucian, Friedrich Schlegel, Juvenal, and Ferdowsi. After him are Lou Andreas-Salomé, W. H. Auden, Gerhart Hauptmann, C. S. Lewis, Mansur Al-Hallaj, and Dionysius of Halicarnassus.

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Among people born in 1803, Prosper Mérimée ranks 3. Before him are Hector Berlioz, and Christian Doppler. After him are Ralph Waldo Emerson, Justus von Liebig, Maria Anna of Savoy, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Adolphe Adam, Charles Lucien Bonaparte, Albrecht von Roon, Flora Tristan, and Maria Teresa of Savoy. Among people deceased in 1870, Prosper Mérimée ranks 3. Before him are Alexandre Dumas, and Charles Dickens. After him are Robert E. Lee, Frédéric Bazille, Josef Strauss, Comte de Lautréamont, Alexander Herzen, Francisco Solano López, Ferdinand von Wrangel, Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany, and Gabriel Lamé.

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In France

Among people born in France, Prosper Mérimée ranks 280 out of 6,770. Before him are Louis, Dauphin of France (1729), Charles de Batz de Castelmore d'Artagnan (1611), Jean-Baptiste Colbert (1619), Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707), Philip V of France (1293), and Honoré Daumier (1808). After him are François Couperin (1668), Philippa of Hainault (1314), Philip the Good (1396), Henry I of France (1008), Georges Clemenceau (1841), and Jean-Luc Godard (1930).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Prosper Mérimée ranks 44. Before him are François-René de Chateaubriand (1768), Frédéric Mistral (1830), George Sand (1804), Roger Martin du Gard (1881), Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1894), and Annie Ernaux (1940). After him are Germaine de Staël (1766), Pierre Corneille (1606), Patrick Modiano (1945), Alphonse Daudet (1840), François de La Rochefoucauld (1613), and Guillaume de Machaut (1300).

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