by Prosper Mérimée · Hachette Education · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782011678508
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«La Vénus d'Ille» is the fantastic tale by Prosper Mérimée, published by Hachette Education in paperback (120 pages, in French).
A traveller passionate about archaeology arrives in Ille and stays with a family preparing the wedding of young Alphonse. The discovery of a bronze statue of Venus, of unsettling beauty, unleashes strange events: the locals believe it to be malevolent, but the inscriptions on its pedestal may hold the answer to the region's mysteries.
School edition from the Bibliocollège collection (no. 13), edited by Claudine Zenou-Grinstein; published on 14 September 1999.
Recommended for secondary school students and for those beginning to read French classics in their original language.
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.
