Prosper Mérimée 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
Frontispiece of La Guzla, showing the purported author, Hyacinthe Maglanovich
One of The Lady and the Unicorn tapestries discovered in 1841 by Mérimée and George Sand in the Château of Boussac
The fortified medieval town of Carcassonne, made a monument in 1860
19th-century French literature concerns the developments in French literature during a dynamic period in French history that saw the rise of Democracy and the fitful end of Monarchy and Empire. The pe
Notable 19th-century French literary figures.