The Girl Who Loved Camellias: The Life and Legend of Marie Duplessis (38 page)

Plantier (septuagenarian debauchee)

Plessis, Alphonsine.
See
Duplessis, Marie

Plessis, Delphine (sister).
See
Paquet, Delphine-Adèle

Plessis, Louise-Renée (grandmother),
1.1
,
1.2

Plessis, Marie (née Deshayes; mother),
1.1
,
1.2
,
app1.1
; ancestry of,
1.3
; baroness’s pledge to help daughters of,
6.1
; childhood of,
1.4
; death of,
1.5
,
6.2
; marital difficulties of,
1.6
; pregnancies and childbearing of,
1.7
,
1.8
; wedding of,
1.9

Plessis, Marin (father),
1.1
,
1.2
,
1.3
,
5.1
; birth and childhood of,
1.4
; daughter sent to Paris by,
1.5
,
2.1
; daughter “sold” to debaucher by,
1.6
; drinking, jealousy, and brutish
behavior of,
1.7
; illness and death of,
1.8
,
3.1
; incest rumors and,
1.9
; Marie’s love for,
1.10
,
1.11
; wedding of,
1.12

Pont-Neuf,
1.1
,
2.1
,
2.2

Ponval, Baron de

Prat, Clémence,
6.1
,
7.1

Prince Paul (pseudonym),
7.1
,
nts.1
n

Privé, Pierre,
7.1
,
7.2
,
app1.1

Prix du Jockey Club,
5.1
,
5.2

Proust, Marcel,
itr.1
,
itr.2

Puynode, Gustave du

Rachel (actress),
5.1
,
5.2
,
5.3
,
6.1
,
6.2
,
7.1

Raguse, Duchess de,
5.1
,
app1.1

Ricourt, Achille

Roqueplan, Camille

Roqueplan, Nestor,
itr.1
,
2.1
,
2.2
,
3.1
,
5.1
,
5.2
,
5.3
,
5.4
,
5.5
,
6.1
,
7.1
,
7.2
,
7.3
,
7.4
,
7.5
; dinners given by,
7.6
; young Marie first seen by,
1.1
,
2.3

Rose (maid),
1.1
,
1.2
,
1.3
,
3.1
,
4.1
,
4.2
,
6.1

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques,
5.1
,
5.2

Saint-Lazare prison-hospital (Paris),
1.1
,
2.1
,
app1.1

Saint-Mathieu fair,
1.1
,
1.2
,
1.3
,
2.1
,
3.1

Saint-Victor, Paul de,
5.1
,
7.1
,
app1.1

Sand, George,
5.1
,
5.2
,
5.3
,
5.4
,
7.1
,
nts.1
n

Scènes de la vie de bohème
(Murger),
2.1
,
2.2

Sins of Youth
(Dumas fils),
itr.1
,
6.1
,
6.2
,
7.1

Soreau, Georges,
4.1
,
nts1.1

Souper des Douze, Le
,
5.1
,
6.1

Spa,
4.1
,
5.1
,
5.2
; Marie’s sojourns in,
7.1

Stackelberg, Count Gustav Ernst von,
4.1
,
6.1
,
6.2
,
7.1
,
nts.1
n
; at Baden-Baden,
4.2
; breaking of Marie’s vow to,
4.3
; daughters’ deaths and,
4.4
,
4.5
,
4.6
,
6.3
,
6.4
,
7.2
; Marie’s final days and,
7.3
,
7.4
; Marie’s Paris apartments luxuriously furnished by,
4.7
,
6.5
,
app1.1
; Marie used as spy by,
6.6
; profligacy of,
4.8
,
6.7
; return of,
6.8

students: mistresses taken by,
2.1
,
2.2
; Parisian hangouts of,
2.3
,
2.4

Sue, Eugène,
2.1
,
5.1
,
5.2
,
5.3
,
app1.1

Susse (Paris)

Taglioni, Marie,
5.1
,
5.2
,
5.3
,
5.4

Théâtre des Variétés,
1.1
,
5.1
,
5.2
,
5.3
,
6.1
,
6.2
,
app1.1

Théâtre de Vaudeville,
itr.1
,
itr.2
,
5.1
,
5.2
,
5.3

Théâtre du Gymnase,
itr.1
,
5.1
,
6.1
,
app1.1

Théâtre Historique

Théâtre L’Ambigu-Comique,
itr.1
,
6.1
,
7.1
,
7.2

Tortoni (café),
5.1
,
app1.1

Traviata, La
(Verdi),
itr.1
,
itr.2
,
itr.3
,
itr.4
,
itr.5
,
5.1
,
5.2
,
7.1
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7.2
,
7.3

Truth About the Real Lady of the Camellias, The
(Vienne),
itr.1
,
nts1.1
.
See also
Vienne, Romain

tuberculosis: Catholic ideology and,
7.1
; euphoria and heightened libido linked to,
6.1
,
7.2
; final stages of,
7.3
; transmission of,
6.2
,
6.3
,
nts.1
n
; treatment of,
6.4
,
7.4

Urbain, Mélanie,
2.1
,
2.2
,
2.3
,
3.1
,
3.2

Vandam, Albert,
2.1
,
4.1
,
5.1
,
5.2
,
5.3
,
5.4
,
5.5
,
5.6
,
6.1
,
6.2
,
app1.1

Verdi, Giuseppe,
itr.1
,
itr.2
,
itr.3
,
itr.4
,
itr.5
,
5.1

Véron, Dr. Louis,
itr.1
,
5.1
,
5.2
,
5.3
,
5.4

Vidal (artist),
app1.1
,
nts.1
n

Vienne, Mme,
1.1
,
1.2
,
5.1
,
5.2
,
7.1

Vienne, Romain,
itr.1
,
1.1
,
1.2
,
1.3
,
1.4
,
3.1
,
5.1
,
5.2
,
7.1
; auction of Marie’s belongings and,
app1.1
; book project on Marie and,
app1.2
; English baroness’s offer and,
6.1
,
6.2
,
6.3
,
6.4
; on Guiche,
4.1
,
4.2
,
4.3
,
4.4
,
4.5
,
5.3
; as journalist living in Paris,
4.6
; on Marie being sold by her father,
1.5
; Marie’s convalescence in Nonant and,
1.6
,
1.7
,
3.2
; Marie’s death and,
7.2
; on Marie’s first months in Paris,
2.1
,
2.2
,
2.3
,
2.4
,
3.3
,
3.4
,
3.5
,
3.6
,
3.7
,
3.8
; on Marie’s funeral,
7.3
; Marie’s future as concern of,
6.5
; on Marie’s refusal to submit to punitive moral code of her day,
4.7
; on Marie’s religious feelings,
7.4
,
7.5
; on Marie’s stay at Baden-Baden,
4.8
,
4.9
,
4.10
,
4.11
; on Marie’s theatergoing,
5.4
; Marie’s tuberculosis and,
6.6
,
6.7
,
6.8
,
7.6
; Montez’s brazen behavior with,
5.5
; nature of Marie’s relationship with,
4.12
; on Olympe’s relationship with Marie,
7.7
,
7.8
,
7.9
,
7.10
; on Perregaux’s relationship with Marie,
5.6
,
5.7
,
5.8
,
5.9
,
5.10
,
6.9
,
6.10
,
7.11
,
7.12
,
7.13
; on Ponval,
6.11
; as source,
nts1.1
; on Stackelberg’s relationship with Marie,
4.13
,
4.14
,
4.15
,
7.14
; in years after Marie’s death,
app1.3
,
app1.4
,
nts1.2
; on young Marie’s sexy escapades,
1.8
,
1.9

Vienot, Edouard,
7.1
,
7.2

Vigée-Lebrun, Elisabeth,
6.1

Villemessant, Hippolyte de,
6.1
,
7.1

Vimont, Elisa,
2.1
,
3.1
,
4.1

Wharton, Edith

Wohl, Janka,
7.1
,
7.2
,
7.3
,
app1.1

Yarborough, Lady Henrietta Anderson

Zola, Émile,
2.1
,
2.2
,
5.1
,
6.1

Zweig, Stefan

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