#Merimee

[detournementsmineurs]

“La Rebelle : les Aventures de la Jeune George Sand” mini-série de Rodolphe Tissot avec Nine d'Urso, Aymeric Fougeron, Oscar Lesage, Yoann Blanc, Barbara Pravi, Louisiane Gouverneur, Vincent Londez, Megan Northam, Astrid Whettnall, Jonathan Turnbull, Grégoire Oestermann, Jonas Wertz, Marie Oppert, David Kammenos, Fabrizio Rongione, Philippe Torreton, Jacques Bonnaffé, Anton Csaszar, Lorenzo Lefebvre, Émilien Diard-Detoeuf, Louis Berthelemy, Mickaël Lumière et les jeunes Oscar Tresanini et Sasha Lemaitre Crémaschi, mars 2025.

[oldbookist]

the irresistible charm of mac and cheese

[cinematic-literature]

L'enfer (1994) by Claude Chabrol

Book title: Colomba (1840) by Prosper Merimée

[spghtrbry]

i drew this masterpiece ages ago but i stumbled upon it now and thought i should post it here ldkgdlfhkllk.......carmen act ii. opera vs novella. comparison.

[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

[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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[les-portes-du-sud]

Sono stanco di uccidere i tuoi amanti..

Ti ucciderò

"Carmen"

Prosper Mérimée

[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

[ariel-seagull-wings]

@princesssarisa

"Tobacco factory" scene from Carmen (1983)

[lauralot89]

19th Century Vampire Lit I'm Gonna Read

Because I've lost my mind.

Most of these texts were found with the aid of these two posts. I did not include any of the stories listed as "not technically about vampires," except for "Let Loose," because it concerns a specter seeking blood, and "Vampirismus," because it's called "Vampirismus."

A strikethrough indicates that I've already read the work. Bold text indicates that I cannot find an English translation, whether online or for purchase. If you know of English translations of any bolded titles, please let me know.

Thalaba the Destroyer, Robert Southey (1801)

"The Vampire," John Stagg (1810)

The Giaour, Lord Byron (1813)

"A Fragment of a Novel," Lord Byron (1816)

"The Vampyre," John William Polidori (1819)

The Black Vampyre, Uriah Derick D'Arcy (1819)

The Vampire Lord Ruthwen, Cyprien Bérard (1820)

The Vampire, or The Bride of the Isles, J.R. Planché (1820)

The Vampire, Charles Nodier (1820)

"Vampirismus," E.T.A. Hoffman (1821)

Smarra, or Demons of the Night, Charles Nodier (1821)

"Wake Not the Dead," Ernst Raupach (1823)

The Vampire, or the Hungarian Virgin, Étienne-Léon de Lamothe-Langon (1825)

Der Vampyre und seine Braut, Karl Spindler (1826)

La Guzla, ou Choix de Poesies Illyrique, Prosper Merimee (1827)

"Pepopukin in Corsica," Arthur Young (1827)

The Vampire, Heinrich Masrschner and Wilhelm August Wohlbrück (1828)

The Skeleton Count, or the Vampire Mistress, Elizabeth Caroline Grey (1828)

Der Vampyre, oder die Totenbraut, Theodor Hildebrand (1828)

"The Vampire Bride," Henry Thomas Liddell (1833)

Clarimonde, Théophile Gautier (1836)

The Family of the Vourdalak, Aleksey Tolstoy (1839)

The Vampire, Aleksey Tolstoy (1841)

"The Vampyre," James Clerk Maxwell (1845)

Varney the Vampire, or The Feast of Blood, James Macolm Rymer (1845-1847)

The Pale Lady/The Carpathian Mountains/The Vampire of the Carpathian Mountains, Alexandre Dumas (1849)

"The Vampyre," Elizabeth F. Ellet (1849)

The Phantom World [select chapters], Augustin Calmet (1850)

The Vampire, Alexandre Dumas (1851)

The Vampires of London, Angelo de Sorr (1852)

The Dead Baroness/The Vampire and the Devil's Son, Pierre Alexis Ponson du Terrail (1852)

"The Vampire," Charles Pierre Baudelaire (1857)

Knightshade/The Shadow Knight, Paul Féval (1860)

"The Mysterious Stranger," Karl von Wachsmann (1860)

"Metamorphosis of a Vampire," Charles Pierre Baudelaire (1860)

The Vampire of the Val-de-Grace, Leon Gozlan (1861)

"The Vampire; Or, Pedro Pacheco and the Bruxa," William H.G. Kingston (1863)

The Vampire/The Vampire Countess, Paul Féval (1865)

Vampire City, Paul Féval (1867)

"The Last Lords of Gardonal," William Gilbert (1867)

Vikram and the Vampire, Sir Richard Francis Burton (1871)

"The Vampire Cat of Nabéshima," Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford (1871)

Carmilla, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1872)

"Ghosts," Mihail Eminescu (1876)

Der Vampyr – Novelle aus Bulgarien, Hans Wachenhusen (1878)

Captain Vampire, Marie Nizet (1879)

"The Fate of Madame Cabanel," Eliza Lynn Linton (1880)

After Ninety Years, Milovan Glišic (1880)

"The Vampyre," Owen Meredith (1882)

"The Vampire," Jan Naruda (1884)

"Manor," Karl Heinrich Ulrichs (1884)

"The Vampyre," Vasile Alecsandri (1886)

The Horla, Guy de Maupassant (1887)

"Ken's Mystery/The Grave of Ethelind Fionguala," Julian Hawthorne (1887)

"A Mystery of the Campagna," Anne Crawford (1887)

"Romanian Deaths and Burials-Vampires and Werewolves," Emily Gerard (1888)

"The Old Portrait," Hume Nisbet (1890)

"The Vampire Maid," Hume Nisbet (1890)

"Let Loose," Mary Cholmondeley (1890)

"The Vampire," Felix Dahn (1892)

The Parasite, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1884)

"The True Story of a Vampire/The Sad Story of a Vampire," Count Eric Stenbock (1894)

"A Kiss of Judas," Julian Osgood Field (1894)

"The Prayer," Violet Hunt (1895)

"Good Lady Duncayne," Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1896)

"The Vampire of Croglin Grange," Augustus Hare (1896)

"Phorfor," Matthew Phipps Shiel (1896)

Dracula, Bram Stoker (1897)

"Dracula's Guest," Bram Stoker (1914*)

The Blood of the Vampire, Florence Marryat (1897)

*"Dracula's Guest" was first published in 1914 but was written either concurrent to or before the writing of Dracula.

I'm going to be honest. When I began, I thought there were four nineteenth century vampire stories. Five if you count Dracula's Guest. I've made a huge mistake.

[dangermousie]

Other than LLTG, The Rise of Ning, and The Story of Minglan, which are some other dramas (c or k) that have classical literary vibes (i.e. be it Gaskell, Austen, Brontes, etc.) that you'd rec? Thank you!!

Full disclosure - my favorite Victorian novelist is Charles Dickens but to me he’s so sui generis I can’t think of parallels.

The Ingenuous One - if Charles Reade was Chinese and wrote wuxia so basically not really Charles Reade but I wanted to make a plug for my fave underrated Victorian author so…

I think the one that comes to mind is The Sword and the Brocade which is a mix of Wilkie Collins and Fanny Burney (it made sense in my head) if I had to find an English lit parallel.

LLTG btw is definitely a mix in my head - an Austen heroine meeting a Bronte hero.

The Imperial Doctress except for the fact that ML is a royal and some other profession-centric period cdramas have some small Zola Les Rougon-Macquart vibes in terms of details of professions, class and gender issues.

Perfect Match has very very small Austen vibes in the whole five daughters and matchmaker mom set up.

If I had to make comparisons, Mary Elizabeth Braddon would have probably enjoyed such “woman seeks revenge” opuses as The Glory and The Double, Ouida would have vibed with all the aesthetically bleeding generals, and except for the fact that it involves royals and not middle class, Herve Bazin’s monstrous claustrophobic families would have understood Royal Nirvana and The Rise of Phoenixes. Alexey Tolstoy would have recognized some themes in Love in Between and Henryk Sienkiewicz would have probably loved one of the many battle heavy epics like Three Kingdoms 2010 and Merimee would have vibed with Siege in Fog and other deliciously fucked up relationship set ups.

I can’t think of any kdramas since it’s been a bit since I’ve loved one (ok fine early parts of Tangerines make me think of Jorge Amado and so did Our Blues)

But ultimately, it’s kind of a hard parallel/connection for me to make because Chinese and Korean dramas are their own thing and quite different from English/French/Russian novels culturally/formatwise/handling of topics to the extent that mostly makes mapping quite hard. Stendhal would have loved the secondary couple of Fake Princess tho.

[foolish-neko]

Because series made me to think about this canon again

For years, I was confused about how to feel about Armand's book backstory.

Like. He's from Kyivan Rus', BUT at the same time from 15th century. Kyivan Rus' was feudal monarchy that existed from probably IX (at least we assume so, because it was mentioned under that name in 852, tho it's not popped from the air, you know) to 1240. From ~1240 to 1349 the country was Rus' Kingdom. After that, Ukraine was splitted between Poland, Lithuania and Moldavian principality. Tho, Ukrainians were called Ruthenians (Latin name for former nation of Kyivan Rus') up until 19th century. I've read Beauplan's and Merimee's works about Ukraine, and they call Ukrainians both Ukrainians and Ruthenians.

SO.

When was Andrii (yes, this is how you would pronounce Ukrainian variation of Ανδρεας or Andrew)? He was Ruthen from Kyivan Rus' or he was Ruthen from 14th century Rus' Kingdom? Or he was even later? Book says he was born in 1481. So, later. A lot later.

We also know that he was kidnapped and enslaved by Mongolians. Mongolians entered Kyiv in 1240, it was a 13th century, not the end of 15th.

AND I HAVE A THEORIES.

Vampires live very long. So, probably it could be a mistake. Maybe Armand is simply older. Maybe he was around in 1240. He was just a child back then. Probably centuries later he was like 'yeah that Mongolians they sold me... so... it was... um... 15th century... yes? no?' Maybe it's just miscount. And then he never bothered to fix that.

The book is written by Daniel if I remember correctly. Perhaps Armand was like 'dude I was in orthodox Christian church I didn't know what year it was, I almost forgot my name and appearance in the catacombs under Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra'. And Daniel asked Marius when he met Andrii. And Marius... Well, if you are around for 2 thousand years, you can remember things incorrectly. So, Daniel, who is American and know nothing about history of Ukraine, and Marius who maybe knows something about Kyivan Rus' because it was a huge and powerful country back then just made that. They counted and assumed that it was 1481. And it was wrong.

Armand is a liar. How we can know that his real name is Andrii? Maybe he had a friend who's name was Andrii and Armand stole it. Maybe he was Taras. Or Bohdan. Or Oleh. How we would know? And maybe he never saw Mongols. How we would know? How would Daniel know? Maybe it was just his grand grandmother who told she saw Mongolians and how they burnt Kyiv. And little Andrii (we can say he was a weirdo all along) was just 'wow I want that! how cool it would be!'. And then he was kidnapped. And assaulted. And sold as a slave. And little weird Andrii just wanted a little comfort in his misery and a cool story. And when Marius asked how Andrii was captured, he made up this cool story about Mongols. Maybe in reality it was something more... Common. Dark and common. Everything could happen. Maybe he was sold by his parents, and he denied it. Maybe it was abuse in that church. Maybe he ran away from church and somehow ended up on the slave market.

Actually, I tend to 3rd. Isn't it a western movie where little talented boy paint so beautifully that Prince Michael (Mykhailo II of Chernihiv I assume) orders one of his icons, but on the way he and his father are interrupted by Mongolians. Also, it was said that Andrii suffered an amnesia due to his trauma caused by life in a brothel. He even starts to learn how to paint from the start, like he never knew how to paint before. So, was he at Lavra at all? Was he an icon painter? We would never know. He could just go to the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, point at some old icon and say he drew it.

Or maybe some part of the story is true and some - isn't. I would speculate that Armand had an education. He wasn't a son of a hunter, no. He knew about Mongols. He knew who was the knyaz in 1240. But in 1481 Yurii Paz was knyaz. Mykhailo would be long dead by that time, obviously. So, how would little poor Andrii Ivanovych from 1481 know who was knyaz back when Mongols burnt Kyiv?)) A hunters son could not, he would not have an education, he would not know how to read or write, so history? Oh no, no way.

So, simply, we do not know who is Andrii. Is he Andrii at all? Was he born in 1481? Was he even 17 when Marius was thinking he was? Was his father a hunter named Ivan? Was he an icon painter at Lavra? probably yes and Ann Rice just didn't research enough

I just was thinking about it for years since I have read Vampire Armand. All these years I was wondering how he end up stolen by Mongols in 15th century...

Tho, it would be hilarious to see Armand's icon in Vampireverse Lavra. Imagine that. By the way, Lavra still have catacombs (I was there on tour). Maybe in Vampireverse some of Andrii's friends are there. Literally, their mummies as saints. He would arrive in Ukraine, in Kyiv and like 'oooh let's go see my old friends'. 'Look, Daniel, this is Marko, I knew him. Oh, and this is Illya, he looks better now, actually'. And then he would see his icon. And like... You know how it feels to see your artwork after some time. It's just not that good anymore, you know. You can do better now. Yes, this is how he would feel. It was a masterpiece in 1490s, he painted it for a year and a half. And now he can draw photo-like detailed art on his graphics tablet.

If you read this, thank you for the attention! Love you!

[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

[cagemasterfantasy]

Her persona is Carmen. A gypsy theif from the novel by Merimee which became famous through the opera by Bizet. She is a femme fatale who is beautiful but very Capricious.