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The real Traviata : the song of Marie Duplessis

Weis, René, 1953- author

2015

Overview

\"The rags-to-riches story of a tragic young woman whose life inspired one of the most famous operas of all time, Verdi's masterpiece, La traviata, as well as one of the most scandalous and successful French novels of the nineteenth century, La dame aux camélias, by Alexandre Dumas fils. The woman at the centre of the story, Marie Duplessis, escaped from her life as an abused teenage girl in provincial Normandy, rising in an amazingly short space of time to the apex of fashionable life in nineteenth-century Paris, where she was considered the queen of the Parisian courtesans. Her life was painfully short, but by sheer willpower, intelligence, talent, and stunning looks she attained such prominence in the French capital that ministers of the government and even members of the French royal family fell under her spell\"--Dust jacket flap.

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Subject: Duplessis, Marie, 1824-1847. / Dumas, Alexandre, 1824-1895. / Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901 / Courtesans France Paris Biography. / Paris (France) Social life and customs 19th century.
• ISBN: 9780198708544, 0198708548

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
DC705.D87 W45 2015	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE