#prosper merimee

[lindahall]

Prosper Mérimée – Scientist of the Day

Prosper Mérimée, a French writer, government official, and defender of France's architectural heritage, was born Sep. 28, 1803. 

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[weddelledseals]

i am very scared but....is carmen community still alive......here are designs that were initially for limbus but i diverged from it and just made them ocs

thats also why they might be a bit ooc, or not story-accurate <:p

[uwmspeccoll]

Fine Press Friday! 

Our Limited Editions Club Shakespeare series keeps giving us more artists to look for in our collection! This week we found Carmen, by Prosper Mérimée (1803-1870) illustrated by French-born American painter and illustrator, Jean Charlot (1898-1979), published by the Limited Editions Club, New York, in 1941 in an unstated limited edition of 1500 copies signed by the artist. We learned about this edition because of the post we did a couple of weeks ago on Charlot’s illustrated edition of Shakespeare’s Henry VI, Part 3.

Mérimée’s 1846 novel about the eponymous Romani beauty, is most popularly well known from Georges Bizet’s famous opera of the same name, which is based on Part III of Mérimée’s story. The action is set in 1830s Andalusia, but Jean Charlot’s illustrations gives the story a Mexican flavor. Charlot worked mainly in Mexico and was a member of the Mexican Muralist Movement, sharing a studio with Fernando Leal who is considered to be one of the first Mexican Muralists. It was after the Mexican Revolution (1910-1917) that the new government sought to use murals to educate the public on social justice issues. From a young age, Charlot was fascinated by Mexican art and pre-Columbian artefacts and his mature work reflects this fascination, including in these illustrations.

The thirty-seven multi-layered color lithographs, which Charlot drew directly on the printing matrix, feel like miniature frescoes. Charlot laid down quick marks to color large areas of the image, which layer in overlapping color to give the image a lively energy. One could easily imagine one of the illustrations used as a page header as a mural above a doorway, signaling a transition. Or, one of the larger full-page illustrations as a mural on a large wall. I am taken by how these illustrations function well in both architectural and book spaces. The book is architecture.  

The lithographs were printed by Charlot’s friend Albert Carman in New York and the type is 18-point Linotype Bodoni printed by Aldus Printers in New York. . The paper was made by the Worthy Paper Company, was watermarked with the name of the book and the covers are wrapped in a vibrant hand-blocked color silk.

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– Teddy, Special Collections Graduate Intern

[les-portes-du-sud]

Sono stanco di uccidere i tuoi amanti..

Ti ucciderò

"Carmen"

Prosper Mérimée

[thinkingimages]

Celestograph by August Strindberg (1849-1912)

Alice Eis in The Vampire (1913)

[thelastofthebookworms]

I have no idea how much people from other countries know French lit, but I'd like you all to know that one of the people on this list is a woman.

I'm considering making a second poll, but I need a few more names.

I also have another Romanticism poll (mostly UK centred) here.

And here's my pinned post with more polls about art, literature, comics, etc.

[plaques-memoire]

Plaque en hommage à : Prosper Mérimée

Type : Lieu de résidence

Adresse : 25 rue Tournefort, 75005 Paris, France

Date de pose : Inconnue

Texte : Ici habitait en 1820 Prosper Mérimée

Quelques précisions : Prosper Mérimée (1803-1870) est un écrivain et historien français. D'abord tourné vers le droit et la politique, il se consacre après ses études à la littérature et aux monuments historiques. Élu à l'Académie des Belles Lettres puis à l'Académie française en 1844, il est particulièrement connu pour sa production de nouvelles, bien qu'il ait également publié un roman et des récits de voyage. La base Mérimée des monuments historiques, créée en 1978, rend hommage au travail qu'il a accompli dans la conservation et la restauration du patrimoine français.

[elgallinero]

La Musica e Vita

Carmen Suite No. 1 (Arr. E. Guiraud): IV. Séguedille by Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya & Pablo González https://www.shazam.com/track/372313281/carmen-suite-no-1-arr-e-guiraud-iv-s%25C3%25A9guedille?referrer=share

[francepittoresque]

23 septembre 1870 : mort de l’écrivain et archéologue Prosper Mérimée ➽ http://bit.ly/Prosper-Merimee C’est à l’âge de 31 ans qu’il devient inspecteur général des Monuments historiques, fonction lui permettant, tout en effectuant de nombreux voyages pour recenser les monuments remarquables, de poursuivre des travaux littéraires auxquels il devait d’avoir déjà acquis une solide réputation

[addictedtooverwatch]

Catching Up

Alright, it's been a while! School has been really crazy and I've been working on getting my driver's license; it's just taken up so much of my time. So, I wanted to make a post about some of the big things that have happend recently that are OW2 related.

Happy Pride Month! I hope everyone has been doing well this month! Overwatch got a bunch of stuff to celebrate: Player Icons and Name Cards, an updated Midtown for Pride, and the "As You Are" shory story which confirmed Pharah to be a lesbian and Baptiste to be bisexual! I think Midtown looks awesome and I'm so glad we got the promised content for Pride month this year!

2. Season 5 Information - We will be getting the Mythic Adventurer Tracer soon! We learned more about some of the upcoming skins in these two tweets: Tracer Skin and Other Skins. Personally, I really like the Orisa skin!

3. Overwatch 2: Invasion and Season 6 Content - Today, we got a bunch of short videos about what we will be getting in terms of PVE content, a new characters, and a new gamemode. Here is a comprehensive video about all of the stuff we got today.

4. The Midseason Madness Tourament - This Overwatch League tournament will be on June 15 - 17. An important thing to know about this tournament is what rewards you'll be able to get. Like normal, you'll be able to get OWL Tokens, but you'll also be able to get a Wrecking Ball spray and D.Va spray, Ramattra OWL skins, and Battlepass Tier Skips!

Again, sorry for not posting for a while, life has just been a lot. Along with working on driving, I've been working on another painting; I'll eventually make a post about it. I also got a short story and poem published in my school's literary magazine which was pretty cool, I may post them. I've also been doing more reading and writing. I just finished 'The World's Greatest Love Letter' compiled by Stefan Dziemianowicz.

Here was one of my favorite quotes: "... you make me dance between heaven and water just to please you, and when you are tired with the sport you will cut the line. Then I shall have a hook in my mouth - and shall never find another fisher." (Prosper Merimee to "Unknown", 1841).

I'm going to be reading 'The Complete Poems of Robert Frost' next! My favorite thing about it right now is that it is 666 pages long.

[macrolit]

Literary history that happened on 28 September

[greencheekconure27]

"Tobacco factory" scene from Carmen (1983)

[authormariellahunt]

The Creators of CARMEN: Prosper Mérimée and Georges Bizet

The Creators of CARMEN: Prosper Mérimée and Georges Bizet

My recent recommitment to learning the piano led me to a passion for classical music. I have a book of simplified classic songs my late grandmother gave me. It is one of my most treasured gifts from Grandma Colleen. I’ve been working through the pieces for a little over a month. To my delight, I came across one of my favorite songs: Habanera from the opera Carmen. Habanera is not a difficult…

[amatesura]

La Guzla, Prosper Mérimée

[i-am-heathcliff-234]

Friends are like watermelons. To find one good one, you have to try a hundred of them.

[microcosme11]

Stendhal (Henri Beyle), a Napoleonic era personality

From a short piece called “H.B.” written by his friend Prosper Merimée, after Beyle’s death. The whole thing is pretty entertaining.

It was difficult to know what he thought about Napoleon. He was almost always in disagreement with whatever side was argued. Sometimes he spoke of him as a social climber, dazzled by the finery, who never obeyed the laws of logic. Other times he would speak with an admiration approaching idolatry. One moment he was a mudslinger like Courier and the other as servile as Les Cases. The men of the empire were treated as inconsistently as their master. He agreed that the emperor had an amazing charisma that affected everyone who came before him. “And I also had the eternal flame. I was sent to Brunswick to raise an extraordinary levy of five million francs. I was able to collect seven and managed to avoid being attacked by the rabble, who were up in arms at my excessive zeal. The emperor, however, asked which auditor was responsible and just said: “That’s good.”

In 1813 B. [Beyle] was witness to the rout of an entire brigade caught unawares by five Cossacks. B. saw around two thousand men running away, including five generals, identifiable by their rimmed hats. He ran like the others but not very fast as he only had one boot at the time and carried the other in his hand. In the entire French corps there were only two heroes who turned to fight the Cossacks: a gendarme called Menneval and a conscript, who killed the gendarme’s horse by mistake as he tried to fire at the Cossacks. B. was given the task of telling the emperor about the stampede, who listened in silent fury while playing with the iron device used to fasten the shutters. They looked for the gendarme to give him the cross but he was hiding, and denied at first that he was even present at the time, as he was sure that nothing was worse than to be identified in the midst of a rout. He was convinced he was going to be shot.