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[Facts] Re: Escamillo
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Thank you very much. I had no idea that Escamillo wasn't a real name. Shows how deeply Bizet researched bullfighting and toreros before writing Carmen.
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In fact, Carmen is a work by Prosper Mérimée (Bizet based his opera in Mérimée's book), who was a close friend of Eugenia de Montijo, Napoléon III's wife, born in Granada.
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