Prosper Mérimée ✍️

Rafaël
4 days ago
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🔥📖 At the origin of the hottest love story in opera -

Salut à tou.te.s,

2025 : Carmen fête ses 150 ans ! Mais derrière l’opéra flamboyant de Bizet se cache un écrivain discret au style clair, rapide et simple : Prosper Mérimée. Historien, archéologue, turbulent, amateur de mystères… Il aimait raconter beaucoup en quelques pages. Alors, prêt à (re)découvrir ce maître de la nouvelle, souvent trop méconnu ?

2025: Carmen celebrates its 150th anniversary! But behind Bizet's flamboyant opera lies a discreet writer with a clear, fast-paced, and simple style: Prosper Mérimée. Historian, archeologist, rowdy, lover of mysteries... He loved to tell a lot in a few pages. So, are you ready to (re)discover this often too-overlooked master of the short story?

Preparation:

watch this week's episode about Prosper Mérimée: https://youtu.be/m49nmSg0H6w (Subtitles are available in French and English by clicking on the CC button on the YouTube control bar).
prepare one or two questions
consider joining us in the reading of "Carmen" on July 24th, 2025