Alexandre Dumas "fils" was the illegitimate son of a Paris dressmaker and the renowned author of "The Three Musketeers." Dumas "pere" took him from his mother as a child (French law then allowed that), and gave the child a marvelous education at schools that included the Institution Goubaux and the College Bourbon -- but he could not take from the child the memory of his mother. Dumas "fils" spent much of his life writing of the loss of her -- in works like "Camille" and this novel, "The Son of Clemenceau." Alexandre Dumas "fils" died at Marly-le-Roi, Yvelines, on November 27, 1895; he is...
Alexandre Dumas "fils" was the illegitimate son of a Paris dressmaker and the renowned author of "The Three Musketeers." Dumas "pere" took him from hi...
Dumas was born in Paris, France, the illegitimate child of Marie-Laure-Catherine Labay, a dressmaker, and novelist Alexandre Dumas. During 1831 his father legally recognized him and ensured that the young Dumas received the best education possible at the Institution Goubaux and the CollEge Bourbon. At that time, the law allowed the elder Dumas to take the child away from his mother. Her agony inspired Dumas fils to write about tragic female characters. In my opinion, it is impossible to create characters until one has spent a long time in studying men, as it is impossible to speak a...
Dumas was born in Paris, France, the illegitimate child of Marie-Laure-Catherine Labay, a dressmaker, and novelist Alexandre Dumas. During 1831 his...
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The landmark novel that inspired Verdi s opera "La Traviata," in a sparkling new translation "One of the greatest love stories of all time," according to Henry James, and the inspiration for Verdi s opera "La Traviata," the Oscar-winning musical "Moulin Rouge ," and numerous ballets, stage plays (starring Lillian Gish, Eleonora Duse, Tallulah Bankhead, and Sarah Bernhardt, and films (starring Greta Garbo, Robert Taylor, Rudolph Valentino, Isabelle Huppert, and Colin Firth), "The Lady of the Camellias" itself was inspired by the real-life nineteeth-century courtesan Marie Duplessis, the...
The landmark novel that inspired Verdi s opera "La Traviata," in a sparkling new translation "One of the greatest love stories of all time," accor...
La Dame aux camelias raconte l'amour d'un jeune bourgeois, Armand Duval, pour une courtisane, Marguerite Gautier, atteinte de tuberculose. Elle a pour habitude de porter a son buste des camelias de differentes couleurs (blancs quand elle est disponible pour ses amants, rouges quand elle est indisposee)1. La narration constitue un recit dans le recit, puisqu'Armand Duval raconte son aventure au narrateur initial du roman."
La Dame aux camelias raconte l'amour d'un jeune bourgeois, Armand Duval, pour une courtisane, Marguerite Gautier, atteinte de tuberculose. Elle a pour...
Everyone wants to believe in the redemptive power of love. That the purity of an honest love can restore a sex worker's soul, making her capable of self-sacrifice, might seem unlikely at best, but Alexandre Dumas the younger was indeed very young when he wrote the novel La Dame aux camelias, and aiming high, he managed, by luck or by genius, to hit his target. In adapting his novel for the stage, he created a timeless portrait of two people from different worlds, whose love, by joining their hearts, prevents their union. This translation attempts to capture the colloquial informality of the...
Everyone wants to believe in the redemptive power of love. That the purity of an honest love can restore a sex worker's soul, making her capable of se...
La Dame aux camelias raconte l'amour d'un jeune bourgeois, Armand Duval, pour une courtisane, Marguerite Gautier, atteinte de tuberculose. La narration constitue un recit dans le recit, puisqu'Armand Duval raconte son aventure au narrateur initial du roman. Dans le demi-monde parisien chic, ou se cotoient riches amateurs et femmes legeres, le jeune Armand Duval tombe amoureux de la jeune et belle Marguerite Gautier, une des reines de ce monde ephemere de la noce. Devenu l'amant de Marguerite, Armand obtient d'elle qu'elle renonce a sa vie tapageuse pour se retirer avec lui a la campagne, non...
La Dame aux camelias raconte l'amour d'un jeune bourgeois, Armand Duval, pour une courtisane, Marguerite Gautier, atteinte de tuberculose. La narratio...
