Alexandre Dumas

The Lady of the Camellias Alexandre Dumas

Margarita lives for love and dies for love. Her young lover, taken by her beauty, is soon to ignore the voices that want to impose themselves on her heart. All the life of the lavish France of the Second Empire crawls through the halls of this Paris, which like an insatiable monster, consumes the victims placed within reach of its clutches. The Lady of the Camellias is a novel inspired by the figure of Marie Duplessis. Much of the events that shape the plot reflect some of the events as they occurred in real life. Marie Duplessis, like Miss Margarita Gauher, was a lover of the most important and brilliant men of her time, a woman of extreme sensitivity and well-trained, who enjoyed playing the piano and reading Cervantes, Víctor Hugo or Moliere. The great impression caused by his early death led the author to write this romantic drama in his honor.