by Prosper Mérimée · Hachette Education · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782013949644
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«La Vénus d'Ille» is the fantastic short story by Prosper Mérimée, published by Hachette Education in paperback (128 pages, in French).
In the town of Ille, a bronze statue of Venus stirs rumors and passions as the wedding of Alphonse and Mademoiselle de Puygarrig is being prepared. No one knows whether it is a benevolent image of the goddess of love or a curse; the inscriptions on its pedestal may explain the unsettling events that disturb the region.
School edition from the Bibliocollège collection: complete annotated text, questionnaires, image-reading and art-history dossier, and the group «Reality or illusion». The work dates from 1835.
For French secondary-school students (collège) and readers who want to approach Mérimée's fantastic tale with educational support.
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 figure in the history of architectural preservation. He is best known for his novella Carmen, which became the basis of Bizet's opera Carmen. He learned Russian, a language for which he had great affection, before translating the work of several notable Russian writers, including Pushkin and Gogol, into French. From 1830 until 1860 he was the inspector of French historical monuments, responsible for the protection of many historic sites, including the medieval citadel of Carcassonne and the restoration of the façade of the cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris. Along with the writer George Sand, he discovered the series of tapestries called The Lady and the Unicorn, arranging for their preservation. He was instrumental in the creation of Musée national du Moyen Âge in Paris, where the tapestries now are displayed. The official database of French monuments, the Base Mérimée, bears his name.
