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lindahall · 8 months

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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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uwmspeccoll · 1 year

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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

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les-portes-du-sud · 2 months

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Sono stanco di uccidere i tuoi amanti..

Ti ucciderò

"Carmen"

Prosper Mérimée

#prosper merimee #carmen #amant #tuer #mars 2024 #les-portes-du-sud #@kamel #abencerages

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thinkingimages · 1 year

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Celestograph by August Strindberg (1849-1912)

Alice Eis in The Vampire (1913)

#translation #prosper merimee #laura nagle #hoax #vampire #august strindberg

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thelastofthebookworms · 1 year

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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.

#polls #french literature #romanticism #gerard de nerval #francois rene de chateaubriand #victor hugo #alfred de musset #alfred de vigny #george sand #prosper merimee #theophile gautier #alphonse de lamartine

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elgallinero · 2 months

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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

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#carmen #Carmen Elizabeth #Carmencita (little carmen)#Cosmic Thing #Georges Bizet #giallo #I heart music #la Musica e Vita #la source #la vita e Bella #Los Misterios #Mount Carmel #Noir #Nuestra Senora del Carmen #Prosper Merimee #Q #Quelle #The Carmelites #WQXR

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plaque-memoire · 1 year

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Plaque en hommage à : Prosper Mérimée

Type : Lieu de résidence

Adresse : 25 rue Tournefort, 75005 Paris, France

Date de pose :

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.

#individuel #hommes #residence #ecrivains #france #ile-de-france #paris #prosper merimee

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arfonoja · 2 years

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Prosper Merimee - Żakeria

#Prosper Merimee #Żakeria #książki #czytanie #literatura #books #górna półka dziadków #1828 #Książka i Wiedza #1952

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francepittoresque · 8 months

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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

#CeJourLà #23Septembre #Mérimée #écrivain #archéologue #patrimoine #monuments #historique #biographie #histoire #france #history #passé #past #français #french #news #événement #newsfromthepast

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franki-lew-yo · 2 years

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Drawtober Challenge: Literary editionsss!

Illustrate a different horror short and/or draw a classic gothic lit character for each day of October.

Annotated, in case the fonts are too hard to read

Shorttober

The Phantom Coach by Amelia Edwards

The Screaming Skull by Francis Marion Crawford

The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde

The New Mother by Lucy Clifford

The Devil and Tom Walker by Washington Irving

The Monkey’s Paw by W.W. Jacobs

Silent Snow, Secret Snow by Conrad Aiken

The Signal Man by Charles Dickens

Dracula’s Guest by Bram Stoker

Oh Whistle and I’ll come to you My Lad by M.R. James

An Occurrence at Owl Creek by Ambroise Bierce

The Vampyre by John William Pilodori

The Romance of Certain Old Clothes by Henry James

La Venus d’ille by Prosper Merimee

The Body Snatcher by Robert Louis Stevenson

The Company of Wolves by Angela Carter

Pigeons from Hell by Robert E. Howard

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Lot No. 249 by Arthur Conan Doyle

It’s a Good Life by Jerome Bixby

The Lawnmower Man by Stephen King

The Shadow by Hans Christian Anderson

There will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury

August Heat by W.F.Harvey

The Red Room by H.G. Wells

The Landlady by Roald Dahl

The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The Lottery by Shirley Jackson

The Cats of Ulthar by H.P. Lovecraft

A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner

The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe

Lit-tober

Victor Frankenstein

Sir Simon (The Canterville Ghost)

Grendel (Beowulf)

Jack Griffon (The Invisible Man)

Okiku (The Disk Mansion at Bansho)

Oiwa (The Story of Oiwa and Tamiya Iemon)

Dorian Gray

Ichabod Crane

Bill Sykes (Oliver Twist)

Henry Jekyll and Edward Hyde

Camilla

Otsuyu (The Peony Lantern)

Count Dracula

Baba Yaga

Erik (Phantom of the Opera)

Moby Dick

Cheshire Cat

Professor Moriarty (Sherlock Holmes)

Professor Faustuss

Von Rothbart (Swan Lake)

The Wretch (Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus)

Cthulhu

Fortunato (A Cask of Amontillado)

Varney the Vampire

Hop Frog

Long Legged Tailor (Der Strewwelpeter)

Sweeney Todd

Feathertop

Dr. Moreau

Prince Prospero (The Masque of the Red Death)

Moundshroud (The Halloween Tree)

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afranciscomiradiezblr-blog · 11 months

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Fotógrafos Franceses del Siglo XIX . ÉDOUARD DELESSERT (1828-1898).

Édouard Alexandre Henri Delessert fue un pintor, arqueólogo y fotógrafo francés, nacido en París el 15 de diciembre de 1828.

Procedente de una familia de banqueros calvinistas de Ginebra, pero radicado primero en Lyon y luego en París, era pintor, arqueólogo y especialmente pionero de la fotografía usando el calotipo.

Espiritual e inteligente, era un talentoso todoterreno. Comenzó estudiando Derecho antes de acompañar, en 1850, a Félicien de Saulcy en su viaje al Mar Muerto y Siria, y luego a visitar Turquía, Grecia, Cerdeña e Italia. Colaborador de la Revue de Paris de 1851 a 1858, fundador de la revista crítica L'Athenaeum, se embarcó en un negocio donde se tragó una gran parte de su fortuna, antes de despilfarrar el resto.

Prosper Merimee, que había sido el amante de su madre, fue su mentor en la literatura y desarrolló, en las cartas que le envió, algunos de sus principios estéticos. Murió el 27 de marzo de 1898 en París sin descendencia.

Nota: La propiedad intelectual de las imágenes ... ( todo) que aparecen en este blog corresponden a sus autores y a quienes éstas las han cedido. El único objetivo de este sitio es divulgar el conocimiento de estos pintores, grabadores, fotógrafos... a los que admiro y que otras personas disfruten contemplando sus obras. No son todas las que son, pero si son todas las que están.

#Fotógrafos Franceses del Siglo XIX . ÉDOUARD DELESSERT (1828-1898).#¿Esta es la imagen y algunos datos (O no) la “Historia” la pones tú? ¡La tuya! ¿Lo harás...?

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addictedtooverwatch · 1 year

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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.

#overwatch league #overwatch 2 #pride month #writing #reading

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hexjulia · 1 year

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I want to go back to my little 19th-early 20th century fantasy-adjacent reading project but the destruction of my ereader really threw me out of it somehow. :(

#prosper merimee i will GET to you. eventually

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macrolit · 3 years

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Literary history that happened on 28 September

#september 28 #literary history #literary #history #literature #on this date #herman melville #elmer rice #prosper merimee #mme de stael

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greencheekconure27 · 3 years

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"Tobacco factory" scene from Carmen (1983)

#favourite movies #carmen 1983 #the best carmen adaptation imho #carlos saura #dance movies #flamenco #cristina hoyos #antonio gades #carmen #prosper merimee #laura del sol #film scenes #show within a show #dance rehearsal #spanish cinema #pas de trois vibes #this but with jan and bohun lol

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authormariellahunt · 3 years

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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…

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#carmen #elaine sciolino #French Literature #music #prosper merimee #the seine

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