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"She was a duchessīut her duchy consisted of Bohemia," said the poet and novelist 207 originally published in 1986) Marie Duplessis died of tuberculosis at theįebruary 1847 in a Paris apartment in the Madeleine. ('Explanatory Notes' by David Coward, in La Dame aux Camélias by Alexandre Dumas fils, translated by David Coward, 2000, p. Sand's Isidora (1846), in which the heroine is referred to as "la dame aux camélias". It is possible that took the title for his book from George She bought her camellias from Raconot, in the rue de Meant that she was sexually available to her lovers, while a red one

She loved camellias ‒ they were her calling card. Rich suitors who paid her rent and glorious clothes. The composer Franz Liszt, but she was not in the position to reject Dumas and Marie Dupleiss knew each other for over a year, before At the age of sixteen she was one of the most sought-after There he met Marie Duplessis, a peasant girl from Nonant-le-Pin To Saint-Germain-en-Laye to live with hisįather. In 1844 Dumas père separated from his wife He never forgave them. After studiesĪt the Institution Goubaux and the Collége Bourbon, he abandonedįurther education to devote himself to writing.Īt first, Dumas had no success, and by the time he was twenty Miserable by his schoolmates who taunted him about his illegitimateīirth. In boarding schools, where Dumas was sent, he was made Later she inspired Dumas' motherĬharacters he often depicted the fate of unmarried women in a tragic Recognized by his father and taken from Marie-Catherine, who first Not being old enough to invent, I content myself with narrating, and Iīeg the reader to assure himself of the truth of a story in whichĪll the characters, with the exception of the heroine, are alive." (in Camille: The Lady of the Camellias, by Alexandre Dumas fils, translated byĪlexandre Dumas fils was born in Paris. Is impossible to speak language until it has been seriously acquired. "In my opinion, it is impossible toĬreate characters until one has spent a long time studying men, as it Rose took another name, Marieĭuplessis, but in Dumas' novel she was Marguerite Gautier and in

She moved to Paris at the age of 14 and became in two years It is based partly on the life of Rose Alphonsine Rather than see him become a social outcast. Who, at the time of his son's birth, was still an aspiring writer.ĭumas fils gained fame with his novel La Dame auxĬamélias (1848), in which a fallen girl, Marguerite, gives up her lover Illegitimate son of Alexandre Dumas père, A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y ZĪlexandre Dumas (jr.) (1824-1895) - known as Dumas fils