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Prosper Mérimée (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.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
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28 September 1803exact date
Parisattested“Prosper Mérimée was born in Paris, the First French Republic, on 28 September 1803, early in the Napoleonic era.”source: Wikipedia: Prosper Mérimée
28 September 1803exact date
Napoleonicattested“Prosper Mérimée was born in Paris, the First French Republic, on 28 September 1803, early in the Napoleonic era.”source: Wikipedia: Prosper Mérimée
1830year
Spainattested“Carmen, according to Mérimée, was based upon a story which the Countess of Montijo had told him during his visit to Spain in 1830.”source: Wikipedia: Prosper Mérimée
September 1837month
Parisattested“He lived with his mother and father in Paris until the death of his father in September 1837.”source: Wikipedia: Prosper Mérimée
23 March 1842exact date
Parisattested“The early death of Stendhal in Paris on 23 March 1842, shocked Mérimée.”source: Wikipedia: Prosper Mérimée
1850year
Parisattested“In 1850, eight years after the death of Stendhal, Mérimée wrote a brief brochure of sixteen pages describing the romantic adventures that he and Stendhal had had together in Paris, leaving most of the names blank.”source: Wikipedia: Prosper Mérimée
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1823 to 1824period
Denmarkmentioned“Between the spring of 1823 and the summer of 1824, he wrote his first literary works: a political and historical play called Cromwell; a satirical piece called Les Espagnols en Dannark (The Spanish in Denmark); and a set of six short the…”source: Wikipedia: Prosper Mérimée
1824year
Francementioned“He also became entangled in a legal affair involving one of his friends, Count Libri Carrucci Della Sommaja, a professor of mathematics from Pisa Count who settled in France in 1824 and became a professor at the Sorbonne, a member of Col…”source: Wikipedia: Prosper Mérimée
1830year
Chartresmentioned“Mérimée met Delessert in 1830, and she became his mistress in 1836, when he was visiting Chartres, where her husband had been named Prefect.”source: Wikipedia: Prosper Mérimée
June 1830month
Córdoba, Spainmentioned“In June 1830 he traveled to Spain, which he explored at a leisurely pace, spending many hours in the Prado Museum in Madrid, attending bullfights, and studying Moorish architecture in Córdoba and Seville.”source: Wikipedia: Prosper Mérimée
June 1830month
Madridmentioned“In June 1830 he traveled to Spain, which he explored at a leisurely pace, spending many hours in the Prado Museum in Madrid, attending bullfights, and studying Moorish architecture in Córdoba and Seville.”source: Wikipedia: Prosper Mérimée
January 1831month
Parismentioned“He returned to Paris in January 1831, and began publishing vivid accounts of his trip to Spain in the Revue de Paris under the title Lettres d'Espagne.”source: Wikipedia: Prosper Mérimée
January 1831month
Spainmentioned“He returned to Paris in January 1831, and began publishing vivid accounts of his trip to Spain in the Revue de Paris under the title Lettres d'Espagne.”source: Wikipedia: Prosper Mérimée
December 1832month
Londonmentioned“He was not there for long; in December 1832 Prime Minister Adolphe Thiers sent him to London on an extended diplomatic mission to report on the British elections.”source: Wikipedia: Prosper Mérimée
1834year
Roussillonmentioned“The Venus d'Ille was a by-product of his 1834 monument inspection tour to Roussillon, to the village of Casefabre and the Priory of Serrabina, near Ille-sur-Têt.”source: Wikipedia: Prosper Mérimée
1834year
Illementioned“The Venus d'Ille was a by-product of his 1834 monument inspection tour to Roussillon, to the village of Casefabre and the Priory of Serrabina, near Ille-sur-Têt.”source: Wikipedia: Prosper Mérimée
1837year
Francementioned“His scholarly works included a survey of the religious architecture in France during the Middle Ages (1837) and of military monuments of the Gauls, Greeks and Romans (1839).”source: Wikipedia: Prosper Mérimée
November 1837month
Romementioned“They traveled together to Rome and Naples in November 1837, but in his correspondence Stendhal complained of the vanity of Mérimée and called him "his Pedantry, Mister Academus".”source: Wikipedia: Prosper Mérimée
1840year
Francementioned“In 1840 he published the first official List of Historic Monuments in France, with 934 entries.”source: Wikipedia: Prosper Mérimée
1841year
Limousinmentioned“In 1841, during one of his inspection tours, he stayed at the Château of Boussac, Creuse in the Limousin district of central France, in the company of George Sand, who lived nearby.”source: Wikipedia: Prosper Mérimée
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