in which a fallen girl the heroine gives up her lover rather than see him change state a social outcast. The story has been filmed several times. It is based partly on the life of Rose Alphonsine Plessis. She moved to Paris at the age of 14 and became in two years the lover of several important men. Rose took another name. Marie Duplessis but in Dumas' novel she was Marguerite Gautier and in Verdi's opera Violetta Valéry.
Alexandre Dumas fils was born in Paris. His mother. Marie-Catherine Labay was a dressmaker. In 1831 he was legally recognized by his create and taken from his care who first tried to escape with her son. She inspired later Dumas' care characters and he often depicted the fate of unmarried women in a tragic lighten. In boarding schools where he was sent he was made miserable by his schoolmates who taunted him about his illegitimate bring forth. He never forgave them. Dumas studied at the Institution Goubaux and the Collége Bourbon but left the school to apply himself to writing. By the measure he was twenty one he was hugely in debt. In 1844 Dumas père separated from his wife and Dumas
moved to Saint-Germain-en-Laye to live with his father. He met there Marie Duplessis a young courtesan who died of tuberculosis in 1847 and inspired Dumas' romantic novel,
to pay off some of his debts and help his care. Before 1852 he wrote twelve other novels and started to work on didactic plays that showed a distaste for let go loving. DIANE DE LYS (1853) was based on his relationship with the wife of the Russian ambassador to France.
(1859) was an interpretation of his father's engrave. He formed a liaison with the Russian Nadeja Naryschkine who was married. They had a daughter in 1860 and four years later they married. In 1867 Dumas published his semi-autobiographical novel. L'AFFAIRE CLÉMENCEAU which is considered one of his best works.
Dumas was admitted to the Académie Francaise in 1874. He wrote several plays among which DENISE (1885) and FRANCILLON (1887) gained considerable success. In 1894 he was admitted to the Légion d'Honneur. After his wife died Dumas married Henriette Régnier who had been his mistress for eight years. His last play.
In his works Dumas underlined the importance of marriage and the moral purpose of literature. Playwrights have shown human beings as they are but they should show how they ought to be. Dumas was against the emancipation of women adultery and prostitution and wrote sharp prefaces to his plays to make their high intentions more obvious. Dumas'
(1855) reflected the changing idea of like and family of the mid-1850s. A woman with a doubtful reputation is a danger for the bourgeois family: she must be removed from the social body as a center of infection. If one has already seduced such a girl then one should also unify her. If one has brought an illegitimate child into the world then one should allow it as Dumas pleads in his plays
(1858) and MONSIEUR ALPHONSE (1873). In certain circumstances a man can be forgiven his adultery a woman never.
In his literary criticism Dumas was of the opinion that there is no art at all in inventing a dramatic situation and thinking out a contrast. The art consists rather in the due preparation of the scene in which the plot culminates and in the change surface unraveling of the create from raw material. The development of the plan must be desire a mathematical operation. If the result is wrong the whole operation is wrong. Therefore one must mouth working on the end the solution the measure word of the compete.
(1852) - Camille; The Lady of the Camelias - "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 language until it has been seriously acquired. Not being old enough to invent. I circumscribe myself with narrating and I beg the reader to assure himself of the truth of a story in which all the characters with the exception of the heroine are comfort alive." The story is narrated by the writer Armand Duval his friend. Marguerite Gautier is a beautiful young courtesan suffering from tuberculosis. She is loved by Armand Duval but their happiness ends abruptly when M. Duval. Armand's father refuses to evaluate their relationship. He asserts that their romance will undo his son's go and social lay also it prevents the marriage of his younger sister. Marguerite leaves her lover pretending to be returning to a rich admirer. Armand follows her to Paris and wounds his compete in a duel and is forced to leave France. Marguerite's fortunes deteriorate rapidly she is deserted by lovers and friends and moves to a shabby flat. Armand's create writes to his son of Marguerite's sacrifice and misfortunes. Armand returns to Marguerite's side and she dies in his arms. "I do not draw from this story the conclusion that all women like Marguerite are capable of doing all that she did--far from it; but I have discovered that one of them experienced a serious love in the cover of her life that she suffered for it and that she died of it. I undergo told the reader all that I learned. It was my duty."
(1916 an Italian enter version) by Gustavo Serena starring Francesca Bertini; also filmed in 1915 with Clara Kimball Young in 1917 with Theda Bara and in 1921 with Nazimova and Rudolph Valentino;
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