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Marie Duplessis (born Alphonsine Rose Plessis; 15 January 1824 – 3 February 1847) was a French courtesan and mistress to a number of prominent and wealthy men. She was the inspiration for Marguerite Gautier, the main character of the 1848 novel La Dame aux Camélias by Alexandre Dumas the younger, one of Duplessis' lovers.
Jul 2, 2013 · In The Girl Who Loved Camellias, journalist Julie Kavanagh tells the true story of the girl who captured so many imaginations. She joins NPR's Robert Siegel to discuss Duplessis' Normandy ...
Learn about the life and death of Marie Duplessis, the courtesan who inspired La traviata, La Dame aux camélias and other works of art. Discover how she rose from poverty to become the queen of Parisian society and the lover of Liszt, Dumas fils and more.
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Marie Duplessis was a 19th-century Parisian courtesan who inspired a novel, a play, a ballet and an opera. Learn about her tragic life, her obsession with camellias and the differences between her and her fictional counterparts.
Jul 19, 2013 · In 1847, shortly before 23-year-old Marie Duplessis, one of 19th-century Paris’s most celebrated courtesans, died of consumption, she told her maid, “I’ve always felt that I’ll come back ...
In La traviata: Background and context. …“lady of pleasure” (the scandalous Marie Duplessis) whom he had known and adored. Like Violetta in the opera, Duplessis had conquered Parisian society with her wit, charm, and beauty, but her reign was a brief one—she died of tuberculosis in 1847 at age 23.
Jun 25, 2013 · A fallen woman of the Demi-monde, a muse to the great minds of the Romantic era, a chaste idol, a passionate courtesan—Marie Duplessis was a woman of beguiling contradictions.
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