Mateo Falcone

Prosper Mérimée (1803–1870) was born in Paris on September 28, 1803, into an intellectual and artistic family. His father was a professor of drawing, his mother a talented painter, and their household nurtured his lifelong love for the arts. Initially studying law, he quickly abandoned it for literature, archaeology, and travel—passions that would shape both his career and his writing. Mérimée had...