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  • MĂ©rimĂ©e, detail of an engraving after a drawing by A. DevĂ©ria, c. 1832
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by his most famous novellas: Colomba (1840), the story of a young Corsican girl who forces her brother to commit murder for the sake of a vendetta, and Carmen (1845), in which an unfaithful gypsy girl is killed by a soldier who loves her. The latter story is internationally known


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by his most famous novellas: Colomba (1840), the story of a young Corsican girl who forces her brother to commit murder for the sake of a vendetta, and Carmen (1845), in which an unfaithful gypsy girl is killed by a soldier who loves her. The latter story is internationally known


    Read More