Sophie Rabau. 2018. Carmen, pour changer : variations sur une nouvelle de Prosper Mérimée by Alice Hagopian

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Henry James’s Spectral Archaeology by Stefano Evangelista

“…Looking, at the same time, back to Prosper Merimée’s use of the fantastic in “La Venus d’Ille” (1837) and forwards to Sigmund Freud’s parallel between archaeology and psychoanalysis in “The Aetiology of Hysteria” (1896), James sets up an intricate set of relations and metaphorical correspondences between stone and language, sculpture and literature, antiquity and modernity, aesthetics and psychology. …”
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L’aqueduc du Gier à Lyon : la complexité de la protection au titre des monuments historiques by Josiane Boulon

“…On October 23, 1830, Ludovic Vitet became the first inspector. In 1834, Prosper Mérimée succeeded L. Vitet. He then began to travel and draft reports about the country’s ancient buildings. …”
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