Emblematic of the genesis of heritage awareness ⁱⁿ the nineteenth century, Prosper Mérimée at once embraced a career as a man of letters and historian committed to the protection of national memory. Author of a prolific and eclectic literary production: novels, poems, travel notes, historical essays ... the original editions of his works are now relatively rare and sought.

In 1825, The Theatre of Clara Gazul, marked by hispanophilie in the zeitgeist, illustrates brilliant literary debut. Accustomed salons of the Restoration, Merimee leads a mundane life which gradually approach the power. Through relationships of his father Leonora Mérimée (1757-1836) Permanent Secretary of the School of Fine Arts, it accesses in 1831 as chief of the office of the General Secretariat of the Navy, then in the direction of the office of Count 'Argout, Minister of Commerce. Once a Knight of the Legion of Honour, the same year the amenities of official recognition will facilitate the publication of his works for the rest of his career. On May 27, 1834, Adolphe Thiers, Interior Minister, appoints the Inspector General of Historic Monuments after Ludovic Vitet. The July Monarchy to be Merimee consecration period, which will be born the most famous stories: The Venus d'Ille (1837), Colomba (1840) and Carmen (1845) Elected to the Academy of Inscriptions and Belles. Letters in 1843 and then to the French Academy in 1844, he published at the same time the history of Arsène Guillot whose plot mixes love, deceit and unworthy religious sentiment many of his colleagues.

Longtime friend of Eugénie de Montijo and close to Napoleon III during the Second Empire, Merimee agrees to enter the Senate under the encouragement of the Empress. The decades of the reign of Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte erected in Mérimée influential politician. therefore more focused on historical research that literary invention, those glorious years will be marked by the publication of various studies slavophiles: Episode of the history of Russia. The False Demetrius (1853), The Cossacks of old (1865), History of the reign of Peter the Great (1864, 1867-1868).

Tired by illness and a life of deeper commitments, Merimee goes out on the French Riviera September 23, 1870, where he was accustomed to retire every winter since 1856.

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This bibliography is intended as a verified and updated synthesis of various bibliographic reference collections of first editions of the author:

• Georges Vicar Manual lover nineteenth century Books, 1801-1893, Breuil-en-Vexin Vexin French editions 1975.

• Marianne and Emmanuel Lhermitte, bibliographic Series main editions of French literature, Paris, Librairie Lhermitte, 2005.

• Marcel Clouzot, the French bibliophile Guide - Bibliography practice of French literary nineteenth century. New edition, revised, corrected and considerably increased. Paris, Librairie Giraud-Badin, 2010.

We have enriched a proposal of digital resources, dedicated websites, articles and scientific journals, various sources ... inviting to pursue the study of the work and editions of Prosper Mérimée.

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Theatre Clara Gazul, Spanish actress.

A. Sautet & Co., booksellers, Place de la Bourse, near the Feydau street (printing H. Fournier), Paris 1825; 8vo. Printed covers. -IX Pp. pp-337 .- (1) (2f half-title and title with an epigraph borrowed from Miguel de Cervantes.) - (1f.).
Contains: The Spanish Denmark - A woman is a devil or the Temptation of Saint Anthony - The African Love - Ines Mendo, where the defeated prejudice. - Ines Mendo, or the Triumph of prejudice - Heaven and Hell.
Very few copies have frontispiece portrait of the woman dressed as Mérimée (there are false). Also there is a cache, placed on the portrait, restores the hair and real costume Mérimée (any scarcity). Copies of the original edition have the half-title Theater of Clara Gazul. Relisted with relay title in 1826. Wanted.
Second edition original part: Fournier, 1830; 8vo. (2f.) - 449 pp .- (2f.). Contains more opportunity and the carriage of the Blessed Sacrament. Also sought that the first edition.
First edition in-12: Charpentier, 1842. With La Jacquerie.

The Guzla or Illyricum choice of poems, collected in Dalmatia, Bosnia, Croatia, and Herzégowine.

FG Levrault, rue de la Harpe, No. 81 and Jew Street, # 33 in Strasbourg, Paris, 1827; 12mo. Printed covers. Frontispiece. XII pp. (half-title, title, table of contents and preface) -257 pp. 1 pl.
Portrait lithographed, signed A. Br., Hyacinthe Maglanovich outside text. Appeared in cardboard printed paper pink or gray, with the title printed in a frame. Fragile, one rarely seen in perfect condition.
First edition in-12: Charpentier, 1842. Following the Chronicle of Charles IX.

The Jacquerie feudal stage, followed by the Family of Carvajal, drama. By the author of the Théâtre de Clara Gazul.

Brissot-Thivars, bookseller, street the Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Pres, No. 14, (printing H. Balzac) Paris 1828; 8vo. Printed covers. (4f.) - 422 pp.- (1f).

Printed by Balzac. Relisted with new titles in 1829 and 1833.
First edition in-12: Charpentier, 1842 following the Théâtre de Clara Gazul.

1572 Chronicle of the reign of Charles IX, the author of the Théâtre de Clara Gazul.

Alexandre Mesnier, bookseller, Place de la Bourse, Paris 1829; 8vo. Printed covers. (2f half-title. With title and epigraph borrowed from Rabelais) fifteenth pp. (Preface) - 383 pp.
Second edition, 1832; 8vo. Title: Chronicle of the reign ...
First edition in-12: Charpentier, 1842.

Mosaic, the author of the Théâtre de Clara Gazul.

H. Fournier young bookseller, rue de Seine, No. 14a (printing H. Fournier), Paris 1833; 8vo. (2f.) - 439 pp .- (1f.). Cover printed or mute with labels.

Contains: Mateo Falcone - Vision of Charles XI - The removal of the redoubt - Tamago - The Enchanted Gun - Federigo - Ballads - The game of backgammon - The Etruscan Vase - the malcontents - Letters on Spain: First: The Fighting bulls. Second: A runtime. Third: The thieves.
Very few strong vellum. The cover door Mosaic, a collection of tales and short stories by Prosper Mérimée, author of Clara Theatre Gazul and chronic of the reign of Charles IX.
First edition in-12: Charpentier, 1842. Following Colomba.

The Double Misunderstanding, by the author of Clara Gazul Theatre.

H. Fournier, rue de Seine, No. 14, (Fournier printing), Paris 1833; 8vo. (2f. Title and false title with an inscription in Spanish) -290 pp. Printed or mute tagged coverage. Very few large vellum.
Blue cover with nets in a frame the book title.
First edition in-12: Charpentier, 1842. Following The Chronicle of Charles IX.

Notes from a trip in the south of France, by Prosper Mérimée, general inspector of historic monuments in France.

Fournier, rue de Seine, No. 14a (printing Henri Fournier) Paris 1835; 8vo. Printed covers. 2 boards. VI pp.- 484 pp. 2 seats.
2 lithographed plates inset: the church of Vézelay Plan; Second inscription on the pedestal of a statue in the church of Vezelay.

Notes from a trip west of France, by Prosper Mérimée, general inspector of historic monuments in France. From a report addressed to the Minister of the Interior.

Fournier, rue de Seine, 14bis, Paris 1836. 8vo. Printed covers. 7 boards. 430 pp. 7 pl.
7 inset plates: the first bas-relief of St. Pol de Leon Cathedral (Finistère) - 2nd Plan altique a monument on the island of Gavr'innis - 3rd Cup and monument for its Gravr'innis southern wall - 4th of Barrow Gavr'innis - 5, 6, 7. id.
Infringement appeared in Brussels in 1837, in the format in-12.

Notes from a trip to Auvergne. By Prosper Mérimée, Inspector General of Historic Monuments. From a report addressed to the Minister of Interior.

Fournier, 18, ??rue de Verneuil, Paris 1838; 8vo. 1 board. (2f.) - 414 pp.- 1 pl.
1 folded sheet (Plan and section of the Church of Conques, Aveyron).

Notes from a trip to Corsica, Mr. Prosper Mérimée, inspector of historic monuments in France.

Fournier, Fournier young, bookstore, 18, ??rue de Verneuil, Paris 1840; 8vo. Printed covers. 11 boards. (2f.) - 236 pp.- 11 pl.

By far the most sought after four trips. 11 inset plates: 1st Stazzona Taravo - The second statare, road Propriano Sartène - Bocca della Pila 3rd - 4th Dolmen of Cauria Valley or Gavuria - 5th Stone found on the domain of Mr Domenico Colonna near Apriciani Sagone - 6th Salareale, Aleria - 7th plan Canonica - 8th St-Michel de Murato - 9th church Window of St Michel (two drawings on the same sheet) - 10th St. Michael Murato - St. Christine Church - 11th Aleria.
The boards inset often lacking in these four volumes. This absence greatly decreases the value of the copy.

Note on a monument on the island of Gavr'innis.
(Printing Terzuolo, 1836); 4to 12 pp. 3 boards. Covers unprinted.

Simple reprint of a Voyage of the passage in the West. 3 lithographed plates inset: 1st Plan and section of the Barrow Gavr'innis - second north wall 5 - 8 south wall - Wall 7 - 3rd south wall No. 9 - No. 10 South Wall - Wall South # 2 - # 4 south wall.

The Souls of Purgatory.

Slnd (1837); 8vo. No cover. 137 pp.

Signed p.137: Prosper Mérimée. Reprint of Dodécaton. Reprinted following Colomba.

Essay on the religious architecture of the Middle Ages, particularly in France, Mr. Prosper Mérimée. (Extract from the Yearbook of the Society of the History of ^France, 2nd year).

Printing Crapelet, rue de Vaugirard, No. 9, Paris 1837; 12mo. 49 pp.

Colomba by Prosper Merimee.
Magen and Comon, booksellers publishers of the works of George Sand, 21 quai des Augustins (printing Maulde and Renou), Paris 1841; Printed covers. 8vo. (2f.) - 463 pp.

This volume contains, in addition to Colomba, The Venus of Ille and Souls in Purgatory, Highly sought. Three Belgian counterfeits had appeared previously at Hauman, Meline and Jamar, 1840; in-16. They are fairly traded.
First edition in-12: Charpentier, 1842.

Essay on the social war, by Prosper Mérimée.
Typography Firmin-Didot, institute printers, Jacob Street, No. 56, Paris 1841; 8vo. Printed covers. (4f.) - 403 pp. 3 boards.

Drawn with 150 copies. The warning reads: "This book, printed in a small number of copies, is not intended for the public. Busy for some time of a historical work on the last years of the Roman Republic, I wanted, before turning the day, test my strength. I chose for this test the time of the social war, first because it seemed to me that she was perhaps too much neglected so far, and further, because the narrative of events which Italy was then the theater forms a necessary introduction to the vast subject that I propose to deal with. "
In the Letters to an unknown, Volume I p.49, Merimee provides guidance on the draw of this book: "On my return to Paris, he wrote in March 1842, I gave myself the innocent pleasure of a print Book without publishing. One drew a hundred and fifty copies: beautiful paper, images, etc ..., and I've given people that I liked .... ".
Original Edition in large part, entitled: Studies on the History of Rome. Magen, 1844 2 in-8. Volume II is entirely new. Quite rare.
First edition in-12: M. Lévy, 1853. A very few strong vellum.
Arsene Guillot.

Lebègue and Sacred publishers printers, Brussels 1844 12mo. Printed covers. pp. 101 to 161.

Published A blond hair L. Gozlan. Reprinted in Carmen.

Royal Institute of France - Speeches in the public session held by the French Academy for the reception of M. Merimee, February 6, 1845.
Firmin Didot brothers typography, printers Institute, rue Jacob, 56, Paris, 1845: in-4. (1f title.) - 37 pp. and 5 p. white.
Mérimée's speech occupies pp.1 to 25; M. Etienne response, pp. 27 to 37. First Edition not put on the market. The speech was published only Mérimée.

Instructions on the paintings of the Church of Saint-Savin. By P. Merimee.
Royal Printing Office, 1845-1846; folio. (1f half-title bearing:. Collection of unpublished documents on the history of France, published by order of the king and the care of the Minister of Education Third series, archeology..).
Frontispiece designed by E. Viollet-le-Duc, and 42 boards designed by Gerard Seguin, lithographed by H. Roux elder, color (chromolithographed by Engelmann and Graf). The work appeared in four deliveries.

Carmen. By Prosper Mérimée.
Mr. Levy brothers, booksellers publishers of the works of Alexandre Dumas; Reybaud Louis, Jules Sandeau, Mrs Charles Reybaud, etc., rue Vivienne, 1, (Sceaux, printing E. Dépée), Paris in 1846. In-8. Printed covers. (2f half-title. And title) -363 pp.
Contains: Carmen - Arsene Guillot - L'Abbé Aubain. One of the rarest and most sought after romantic. Extremely rare in period of good quality binding. The cover is dated 1847. A report reprint (1 only known copy) this text from the Revue des Deux Mondes.
First edition in-12, partly original: M. Lévy, 1852. Particularly sought after because of the rarity of the original. Very few copies on strong vellum.

Statements made ??in the public session held by the French Academy for the reception of M. Ampere, May 18, 1848.
Typography Firmin-Didot brothers, printers Institute, rue Jacob, 56, Paris 1848; in-4. Covers unprinted. (1f title.) - 23 pp. and 1p. white.
The Ampere speech occupies pp. 1 to 16; Mérimée's response pp. 17 to 23. First Edition. Not put on the market.

History of Don Pedro ^I, King of Castile, by Prosper Mérimée (the French Academy).
Charpentier, Books Editor, 17, rue de Lille, (printing Gerdes), Paris 1848; 8vo. Printed covers. (2f half-title. And title) -586 pp. including the dedication to Madame la Comtesse de Montijo; and 1f. White.
Drawn with few, rare. Some strong vellum.
First edition in-12: Charpentier, 1865.
HB
(At the end :) Typ. Firmin Didot, nd (1850); 8vo. Printed covers. (1f). - 16 pp.
The blue cover just the initials HB HB The initials are those of Henry Beyle (Stendhal). The greatest rarity and highly sought. Shot 25 copies, not put on the market, we barely knows a dozen today.
Reprints: LMWH. Slnd (Chicken-Malassis, 1857); in-16. (2f.) - 38 pp .- (1f). Dummy cover. Extremely rare. Drawn to 36 copies in demand.
HB, by one of the forty Eleutheropolis, MLCCCLXIV (for 1864). Small 8vo. Mute coverage. Frontispiece of Rops. Drawn with 140 specimens, including 10 Chinese and 20 with two states laid the frontispiece. Fort also searched.
Henri Beyle, San Remo, Gay, 1874; 12mo. Mute coverage. Drawn to 50 copies. Rare.

Episode of the History of Russia. The False Demetrius. By Prosper Mérimée, the French Academy.
Mr. Levy brothers, publishers, rue Vivienne, 2a (Imprimerie J. Claye and Co.), Paris, 1853; 12mo. Printed covers. (2f. As overhang and title) and 452 pp.
The cover door at the top: Modern Library, 2nd series. Fairly common. Shot 1,500 copies. Very few strong vellum. Book translated into English and German.

The two followed legacies of the Inspector General and an adventurer Beginnings, by Prosper Mérimée, the French Academy.
M .Lévy brothers, booksellers publishers, rue Vivienne, 2a, Paris 1853: 12mo. Printed covers. (2f false title with the front. "Works by Prosper Mérimée") -369 pp .- (. 1f table).
The cover bears: Modern Library, 2nd series. Fairly common. Very few strong vellum.

Inauguration of the statue of Froissart in Valenciennes, September 21, 1856.
Typography Firmin-Didot brothers, son and Co., printers of the Imperial Institute, rue Jacob, 56, Paris sd (1856); 4to 14 pp.
Mérimée's speech occupies pages 1 to 4. Edition. Not put on the market.

Stanka revolt Razin. Article by M. Merimee, extract from the scholars newspaper, notebook July 1861.
(Imperial Printing, August 1861); 4to 32 pp.
Original edition. Not put on the market.

History of the reign of Peter the Great, by N. Oustrialof. Items Mr. Merimee excerpts from the Journal des savants (1864).
(Imperial Printing Office, 1865), Paris; in-4. (2f half-title. And title) -85 pp. and 1f. White.
Edition not put on the market.

The Cossacks of old, by Prosper Mérimée, the French Academy.
Mr. Levy brothers, publishers booksellers, rue Vivienne, 2a and Boulevard of the Italians, 15, to the new library, (Saint-Germain, L. Toinon printing and Co.), Paris 1865; 12mo. Printed covers. (2f. Half-title and title) -369 pp .- (1f).
Contains: Bogdan Chmielnicki - Stepan Razin. Fairly common.

The Blue House. New dedicated to Madame de la Rhune.
Biarritz, September 1866 [Paris, printing Jules Claye, 1871]; Small 8vo. 53 pp. Mute coverage.

Of the utmost rarity, fired 3 copies.
Second Edition: Brussels, 1872. 8vo. (2f.) - VII-59 pp. Rare, reprinted 129 copies, 20 Holland and China 9. Wanted given the near impossibility of obtaining the first edition.
Other edition in Belgium, same date. Some laid and some china. Uncommon. Text reprinted in the News.

Latest news from Prosper Mérimée, the French Academy. Lokis - It Viccolo di Madama Lucrezia - The Blue Room - Djoumane - The Pistol - Federigo - The Spanish witches.
Mr. Levy brothers, publishers, Rue Auber, 3, Opera Square. New library, boulevard of the Italians, 15, at the corner of rue de Grammont, (St-Germain, printing Eugene Heutte and Co.), Paris 1873; 12mo. Printed covers. (2f. Half-title and title) -356 pp .- (1f).

In large part original. There, the head of the Blue Room, a sticker on timber (p.184) that is not in all copies. Fairly common. 10 Holland, eagerly sought.

Historical and literary portraits, by Prosper Mérimée, the French Academy.
Mr. Levy brothers, publishers, Rue Auber, 3, Opera Square. New library, boulevard of the Italians, 15, at the corner of rue de Grammont (Châtillon-sur-Seine, printing E. Cornillac) Paris 1874; 12mo. Printed covers. (2f. Half-title and title) -357 pp .- (1f. Table)

Contains: Cervantes - Victor Jacquemont - Henri de Guise - Charles Nodier - Henri Beyle (Stendhal) - Theodore Leclerc - Alexis de Valon - Alexander the Sommerard - Froissart - Branthôme - Charles Lenormant - Edmond Ellice - Alexander Pushkin - Ivan Turgenev. Fairly common. A few large vellum.

Letters to an unknown, by Prosper Mérimée, the French Academy, preceded by a study by H. Taine Mérimée.
Mr. Levy brothers, publishers, Rue Auber, 3, Opera Square. New library, boulevard of the Italians, 15, at the corner of rue de Grammont (printing J. Claye), Paris 1874; 2 in-8. Printed covers. I. (2f.) - XXXV pp.-364 pp. / II. (2f.) - 373 pp.

Fairly common. 10 copies on Holland, eagerly sought.
First edition in-12: Mr. Levy, 1874; 2 volumes.

Letter to another unknown, by Prosper Mérimée, the French Academy. Foreword by H. Blaze de Bury.
Mr. Levy brothers, publishers, Rue Auber, 3, Opera Square. New library, boulevard of the Italians, 15, at the corner of rue de Grammont, Paris 1875; 12mo. Printed covers. (2f half-title. And title) -LXXII-233 pp.
The "other unknown" is Ms. Lise Przezdziecka Countess. Fairly common.

Studies on the arts in the Middle Ages, by Prosper Mérimée, the French Academy.
Mr. Levy brothers, publishers, Rue Auber, 3, Opera Square. New library, boulevard of the Italians, 15, at the corner of rue de Grammont (Châtillon-sur-Seine, printing E. Cornillac), Paris 1875; 12mo. Printed covers. (2f title and false title.) - 377 pp. and 1f. table.

Contains: Essay on the architecture in the Middle Ages, particularly in France - The Church of Saint-Savin and its murals - Military Architecture in the Middle Ages - Constantinople in 1403 - The Altarpiece of Basel - Album of Villard - The Cluny Museum wreaths. Fairly common.

Letters to Panizzi, 1850-1870, published by M. Louis Fagan, the firm prints of the British Museum.
Calmann-Levy, editor, former home Michel Lévy Frères, 3, rue Auber, (Corbeil, Crété typography), Paris, 1881, 2 in-8. Printed covers. 2 portraits. I. (2f.) - XIX pp.-367 pp. 1 pl. / II. (2f.) - 454 pp. 1 pl.

Portraits of Mérimée and Panizzi engraved on wood by A. Leveille. Fairly common and few sought on plain paper. 30 Holland. Very few copies of tests, cupboards (4?), Give only the full text.

An unpublished correspondence. Warning BRUNETIER Ferdinand, of the French Academy.
Calmann-Levy, editor, former home Michel Lévy Frères, 3, rue Auber, (printing Chaix), Paris, 1897; 8vo. Printed covers. (2f.) - Pp. VI-332 pp.
Correspondence with Madame de la Rochejacquelein. 25 Holland.

Seven letters to Stendhal.
Rotterdam, at the expense of the Company in 1898; Small 8vo. Printed covers. 55 pp.
Posted by MC Striyenski. Original edition. Shot 25 copies, not put on the market.

Letters of Prosper Merimee to a provincial (unpublished letters), by Marcel Sellier. Correspondent extract.
Printing Soye and son, printers, 18, ??rue des Fosses-Saint-Jacques, Paris 1898; in-8 29 pp. Printed covers.

A letter.
Leroux, Paris 1899 8vo 4 pp.

Unpublished letters of Prosper Mérimée. 1900.
(Moulins, Crepin-Leblond printing) in 1900; 8vo. Printed covers. CXXIX pp .- (1f.) - 251 pp.- (1f.).
Restores deleted certain texts in the Letters to Panizzi (see above). Drawn to 42 copies on Japan.

Letters to Lagrene.
Printing Protat, Macon 1904 8vo. Figures 6 and 4 facsimiles.
Drawn with 75 copies on Japan.

Letters to Estebanez Calderon.
Blue Review, Paris 1910; in-8 30 pp.

Letters to Grasset.
Knowledge, Paris 1929; 8vo.
60 Annam and 8A Rives.

Pages found.
Emile-Paul, Paris, 1929.
30 15 Auvergne and Japan.

Letters to the Countess de Montijo.
Sl, 1930; 2 in-4.
Circulation 500 copies, 15 of Japan.

Letters to Francisque Michel.
Champion, Paris, 1930; 8vo. 6 facsimiles.
100 25 Arches and Japan.

Letters to the Delessert family.
Plon, Paris 1831. Portrait.
Various large paper.

Anglo-American Studies.
Champion, Paris, 1930; 8vo.
100 25 Arches and Japan.

Letters to the Comtesse de Boigne.
Plon, Paris 1933; in-16.
Drawn to 625 copies, 50 and 25 Lafuma Holland.

Letters to Ludovic Vitet.
Plon, Paris, 1934; 8vo.
Circulation 360 copies, including 20 and 10 Lafuma Holland.

Two letters to George Sand.
The Divan, Paris 1935; in-16 of 7 pp.
Drawn with small number.

Letters to Madame de Beaulaincourt.
Calmann-Lévy, Paris 1936; 8vo.
20 Holland.

Episode of an unpublished novel.
Paris, 1937; 8vo 11 pp.

Letters to Western Antique.
Poitiers, 1937; 8vo.
Drawn to 235 copies.

Letters to Fanny Lagden.
Boivin, Paris sd (1838); 8vo.

Letters to the Duchess of Castiglione-Colonna.
Boivin, Paris 1938; 8vo. Portrait.

General correspondence.
Divan (and others), Paris 1941-1964; 17 8vo.
Partly original. 21 Arches.

History of the reign of Peter the Great.
Conard, Paris 1947; 12mo. 2 portraits.
25 China.

All the first editions and books incribed by Mérimée on Edition-originale.com :

Prosper Mérimée : signed books, first editions, inscribed books and manuscripts

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Digital resources


Dedicated Sites

Website of the company Mérimée: http://prospermerimee.org/presentation.html

Website of the Ministry of Culture: http://www.merimee.culture.fr/

Merimee Academician:
http://www.academie-francaise.fr/les-immortels/prosper-merimee

Encyclopedia of the Agora: http://agora.qc.ca/Dossiers/Prosper_Merimee

Data BNF: http://data.bnf.fr/11915671/prosper_merimee/

Housing archeology, site of the ENS:
http://www.archeologiesenchantier.ens.fr/spip.php?article91

Publications, articles and scientific journals:
Ora Avni Hoax of reading in Mérimée. Lira best who laughs last. In: Literature, No. 58, 1985. The knowledge of writing. pp. 29-41.
http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/litt_0047-4800_1985_num_58_2_1387

Roland Recht. Tribute to Prosper Mérimée. The invention of the historical monument. In: Proceedings of meetings of the Academy of Inscriptions and Belles-Lettres, 147th year, N. 4, 2003. pp. 1573-1585.
http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/crai_0065-0536_2003_num_147_4_22670

Dubé, Pierre H., Bibliography of reviews Prosper Mérimée: 1825-1993, Droz, Geneva, 1997:
https://books.google.fr/booksid=Vc7g4Ti4BVcC&printsec=frontcover&hl=fr#v=onepage&q&f=false

Various sources

Drawing Prosper Merimee site INHA
http://bibliotheque-numerique.inha.fr/collection/7247-souvenirs-de-la-commission-des-arts-et/

Merimee caricatured by Nadar:
http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8540006w/f1.item.r=Prosper%20M%C3%A9rim%C3%A9e

Collection of articles on Prosper Mérimée 1937-1940
http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10509058s.r=Prosper+M%C3%A9rim%C3%A9e.langFR