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The company will bring Johan Inger’s “Carmen,” a stark interpretation of the Prosper ��é������é�� novella that inspired both the Bizet opera and a 1967 ballet by Alberto Alonso.

A man of immense charm, Phelps had persuaded an editor at McGraw-Hill to bring out a new collection of the best short stories of Prosper Merimée.

Instead, it bombed and all the editor’s other contracts — including the Merimée — were canceled.

In France, the writer Prosper ��é������é�� became the second inspector general of a newly established Commission on Historic Monuments, tasked with determining what elements of the nation’s architectural heritage should be preserved, and in what manner restored.

Through her, she met literary greats such as Stendhal, Hugo, Prosper Merimee and Chateaubriand.