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Merimee has taken his place in the history of French literature as discreetly as if he were alive. Nobody has attacked him, nobody has lauded him to the skies. But his fame is genuine and still growing. A classicist from personal taste,.he becomes one of the first realists by 'wayof reaction from romantic exaggeratiom Above all he is an artist. He excels in planning the just pro; portion of the partsofastory. Essential. And he conceals the machinewj narration so successfully detection, thereby giving. The impression ofuspontaneitykwhich isthe sine qua non Of any art. He is the foremost novelettist Of his time. Wver the franco-prussian war hastened his end. His death, which, in 1869, had been erroneously announced in all the newspapers of Europe, passed unnoticed amid the loud crash Of the downfall of the second empire.
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