by Prosper Merimee · Flammarion · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782081225855
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«La Vénus d'Ille» is the fantastic short novel by Prosper Mérimée, published by Flammarion in paperback (143 pages, in French).
A Parisian antiquary visits Ille to study its ruins and stays with Monsieur de Peyrehorade, who has found a disturbing statue of Venus. Its pedestal warns of the danger of being loved by the goddess. Despite the warning, the owner makes her protector of his son's wedding and the statue seems to come to life, dragging the story into the fantastic.
Edition with complete text from the Étonnants Classiques collection; includes a pedagogical dossier and two text groupings: «Noces de sang» and «Statue animée, statue infernale».
Edition designed for the French classroom, aimed at collège students (classe de quatrième), and appealing to readers of the fantastic tale.
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.
