The Girl Who Loved Camellias: The Life and Legend of Marie Duplessis (36 page)

Achard, Amédée (writing under pseudonym Grimm),
7.1
,
7.2

affaire Clemenceau, L’
(Dumas fils),
6.1
,
6.2

Agoult, Countess Marie d’,
7.1
,
7.2
,
7.3
,
7.4
,
7.5
,
7.6
,
7.7
,
7.8
,
app1.1

Aguado de las Marismas, Count Olympe,
7.1
,
7.2
,
7.3
,
7.4
,
7.5
; background of,
7.6
; end of Marie’s affair with,
7.7
; Marie’s debts settled by,
7.8
,
7.9
; Marie’s final hours and,
7.10
,
7.11
; at Marie’s funeral,
7.12
; as photographer,
app1.1
; society women’s introduction to Marie arranged by,
7.13
; in years after Marie’s death,
app1.2

Anderson, Mme (baroness),
6.1
,
6.2

Argentelles, Anne d’

Arvers, Félix,
5.1
,
6.1

Ashton, Frederick,
itr.1
,
itr.2
,
nts.1
n
,
nts.2
n

Assommoir, L’
(Zola)

Badeblatt
,
4.1
,
4.2
,
4.3

Baden-Baden,
3.1
; Marie’s sojourns in,
4.1
,
4.2
,
7.1

ballet:
The Lady of the Camellias
as source material for,
itr.1
; Parisian society of 1840s and,
5.1

Balzac, Honoré de,
5.1
,
5.2
,
5.3
,
5.4
,
5.5
,
6.1

Banville, Théodore de,
itr.1
,
1.1

Barbey d’Aurevilly, Jules

Beaconsfield, Lord

“Beatrice Palmato” (Wharton)

Beauvoir, Roger de,
itr.1
,
5.1
,
5.2
,
7.1

berceau, Le
(Viennne)

Berlioz, Hector,
5.1
,
7.1

Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Jacques-Henri

Bernhardt, Sarah,
itr.1
,
itr.2
,
6.1
,
6.2
,
7.1

Berry, Duchess de,
1.1
,
1.2
,
5.1

Blessington, Lady,
4.1
,
4.2
,
nts.1
n

Bloody February (1848)

Boisard, Agathe and Jean-François (cousins),
1.1
,
1.2

Boisard, Roch (cousin),
1.1
,
5.1

Bois de Boulogne, as gathering spot

Bolognini, Mauro,
itr.1
,
1.1
,
1.2

Bonaparte, Louis-Napoléon,
itr.1
,
app1.1

Bordeaux, Henri, Duke of,
1.1
,
4.1
,
4.2
,
5.1

Bouffé, Marie,
6.1
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,
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,
app1.1

Bougival, Marie and Perregaux’s home in,
5.1
,
5.2
,
nts.1
n

Cabanes, C.,
6.1
,
7.1

Café de Paris,
4.1
,
5.1
;
Le Souper des Douze
at,
5.2
,
6.1

Callas, Maria

camellias: Marie’s association with,
5.1
,
nts.1
n
; as status symbol,
5.2

Camille
(1921 movie),
itr.1
,
nts.1
n

Camille
(1936 movie)

Camille
(American production of play
The Lady of the Camellias
)

cancan (or cachucha),
2.1
,
2.2

Carmen
(Bizet)

Carolyne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein, Princess

Castellane, Count Pierre de
,
n

Chanel, Coco

Chaplin, Charles (artist),
7.1
,
nts.1
n

Charles X

Chartreuse, La (Paris)

Chomel, Auguste-François

Claudin, Gustave,
1.1
,
4.1
,
5.1
,
5.2
,
5.3

Clotilde (maid),
6.1
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7.1
,
7.2
,
7.3
,
7.4
,
7.5
,
7.6
,
7.7
,
7.8

colporteur, Le
(Maupassant)

Conrad, Peter

Consumptives and Great Lovers
(Cabanes)

Contades, Henri de,
6.1
,
nts1.1

Corsaire, Le

Courrier de Paris

courtesans (demimonde),
2.1
,
4.1
,
5.1
,
5.2
,
5.3
; after beauty and youth had faded,
6.1
,
6.2
,
6.3

Cukor, George

dame à la licorne, La

dancing, at public balls

Daremberg, Georges

Davaine, Casimir,
7.1
,
7.2
,
7.3

Degas, Edgar

Déjazet, Eugène,
6.1
,
6.2
,
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,
6.4
,
app1.1

Déjazet, Virginie,
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7.1

Delacroix, Eugène,
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,
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,
7.1

Delessert, Edouard,
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,
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,
app1.1

Delessert, Valentine

Delisle (Perregaux’s guardian)

Delvau, Alfred,
4.1
,
7.1

demimonde.
See
courtesans

Denis, M and Mme (innkeepers)

Descours, Louis (grandfather)

Descours, Marin (great-grandfather),
1.1

Deshayes, Etienne

Deshayes, Françoise Leriche (grandmother)

Deshayes, Julie (aunt and godmother)

Deshayes, Louis (grandfather),
1.1
,
1.2
,
7.1

Devéria, Achille,
2.1
,
5.1

Dezoutter (hairdresser)

Dickens, Charles,
itr.1
,
6.1
,
app1.1
,
app1.2

Didier, Alexis

Disraeli, Benjamin,
4.1
,
4.2

Doche, Eugénie,
itr.1
,
itr.2
,
itr.3

du Hays, Charles,
1.1
,
1.2
,
1.3
,
1.4
,
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,
7.1
,
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,
nts1.1

du Hays, Count and Countess,
1.1
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1.2
,
1.3
,
1.4
,
1.5
,
1.6

Duke de R (Marie/Alphonsine’s benefactor),
3.1
,
4.1
,
4.2

Dumas, Alexandre, fils,
itr.1
,
itr.2
,
itr.3
,
itr.4
,
5.1
,
6.1
,
6.2
,
7.1
,
7.2
,
nts1.1
,
nts.1
n
; auction of Marie’s belongings and,
app1.1
,
app1.2
; compassionate nature of,
6.3
; end of Marie’s affair with,
6.4
,
6.5
; father’s relationship with,
6.6
,
6.7
,
6.8
; as journalist,
6.9
;
The Lady of the Camellias
by,
itr.5
(
see also Lady of the Camellias, The
); Marie’s association with camellias and,
5.2
; Marie’s excursions outside of Paris with,
6.10
; Marie’s first meeting with,
6.11
,
6.12
,
nts.2
n
; Marie’s innate sensuality and,
6.13
; Marie’s tuberculosis and,
6.14
,
6.15
,
6.16
; Marseille sojourn of,
6.17
,
6.18
,
6.19
; physical appearance of,
6.20
,
6.21
;
Sins of Youth
by,
itr.6
,
6.22
,
6.23
,
7.3

Dumas, Alexandre, père,
itr.1
,
itr.2
,
itr.3
,
itr.4
,
3.1
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,
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,
6.1
,
6.2
,
6.3
,
app1.1
,
app1.2
,
app1.3
; Caribbean ancestry of,
6.4
,
6.5
; on Marguerite’s return to Paris in third act,
5.6
; on Marie’s innate sensuality,
6.6
; Marie’s interest in,
6.7
,
6.8
,
6.9
; on Marie’s study of acting,
5.7
; son’s relationship with,
6.10
,
6.11
,
6.12

Duplessis, Marie (née Rose-Alphonsine Plessis): acting studied by,
5.1
,
5.2
; Alphonsine Plessis’s name changed to,
3.1
,
4.1
,
nts.1
n
; ancestry of,
1.1
; birth of,
1.2
,
1.3
; Bougival home of,
5.3
,
5.4
,
7.1
,
nts.2
n
; burial of,
7.2
; camellia associated with,
5.5
,
nts.3
n
; child-hood of,
1.4
,
1.5
,
1.6
; convalescing in Nonant after birth of her son,
1.7
,
3.2
; countess title of,
7.3
; death of,
itr.1
,
itr.2
,
7.4
; debts of,
7.5
,
7.6
,
7.7
,
7.8
,
7.9
,
7.10
,
7.11
; early life of,
1.8
,
1.9
; English baroness’s offer and,
6.1
,
6.2
; first weeks in Paris of,
2.1
;
funeral of,
7.12
; horses as passion of,
1.10
,
1.11
,
4.2
,
5.6
,
6.3
,
6.4
,
7.13
,
7.14
; innate sensuality of,
6.5
; lavish Paris apartments of,
4.3
,
6.6
; library of,
4.4
,
5.7
,
5.8
,
6.7
,
app1.1
; Manon Lescaut as alter ego of,
5.9
,
5.10
,
5.11
,
5.12
; marriage of Perregaux and,
5.13
,
5.14
,
7.15
,
7.16
; physical appearance and demeanor of,
1.12
,
2.2
,
2.3
,
4.5
,
4.6
,
5.15
,
5.16
,
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,
7.18
; piano playing of,
6.8
,
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,
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,
nts.4
n
; portraits of,
4.7
,
5.17
,
5.18
,
6.9
,
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,
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,
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,
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,
app1.2
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,
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n
; posthumous auction of belongings of,
6.10
,
app1.3
,
app1.4
; posthumous destruction of personal correspondence of,
app1.5
,
nts1.1
,
nts1.2
; pregnancy and childbearing of,
3.3
,
3.4
,
3.5
,
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n
; religious feelings of,
7.25
,
7.26
; schooling of,
1.13
; seduction and sex as youthful interests of,
1.14
,
1.15
; sent to Paris,
1.16
,
2.4
; sexual services first sold by,
1.17
; as shopgirl in Paris,
2.5
,
2.6
,
3.6
; soirées of,
7.27
; stuffed green lizard of,
1.18
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app1.6
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n
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n
; theater frequented by,
5.19
,
5.20
,
7.29
; transformed into worldly and educated woman,
4.8
,
4.9
,
5.21
; tuberculosis suffered by,
4.10
,
6.11
,
6.12
,
6.13
,
6.14
,
7.30
,
7.31

Duprez, Gilbert

Duse, Eleonora

Ernestine (Marie/Alphonsine’s girlfriend),
2.1
,
2.2
,
3.1
,
3.2
,
3.3
,
4.1

espionage

Etienne (coachman),
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,
7.2
,
7.3
,
7.4

Fechter, Charles

feminist
, Dumas fils’s first use of term

Fleury, M.,
2.1
,
3.1

folie de grandeur
, meaning of

Fontaine, Clara

Fonteyn, Margot,
itr.1
,
itr.2
,
nts.1
n

Foreign Legion,
5.1
,
6.1
,
7.1
,
app1.1

Forster, John

foyer de la danse, Le
(Lami)

Garbo, Greta,
itr.1
,
itr.2

Gautier, Théophile,
5.1
,
5.2
,
5.3
,
5.4
,
5.5
,
5.6
,
7.1
,
app1.1
; approached to write Marie’s story,
app1.2
; auction of Marie’s belongings and,
app1.3
,
app1.4