The Girl Who Loved Camellias: The Life and Legend of Marie Duplessis (37 page)

The General (Marie’s protector),
4.1
,
4.2
,
4.3

Girardin, Delphine de

Girardin, Emile de

Giselle

Goncourts

Gosse, Edmund

Gramont, Duke de,
4.1
,
4.2
,
4.3
,
4.4
,
5.1

Gramont, Elisabeth de

Gramont, Ida, Duchess de,
4.1
,
4.2
,
4.3
,
nts.1
n

Grande Chaumière, La,
2.1
,
3.1

Great Northern Railway, festivities for inauguration of

grisettes: lorettes vs.,
3.1
,
3.2
; use of term,
2.1

Grisi, Carlotta,
5.1
,
7.1

Gros, Johannes,
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,
nts1.1

Guiche, Agénor, Duke de,
4.1
,
4.2
,
6.1
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,
6.3
,
7.1
,
7.2
,
7.3
,
7.4
; ancestry of,
4.3
; childhood of,
4.4
; Dumas’s characters related to,
4.5
,
app1.1
; education of,
4.6
; London sojourn of (1842),
4.7
,
4.8
,
4.9
,
5.1
,
6.4
; Marie’s correspondence with,
4.10
,
4.11
,
5.2
,
5.3
; Marie’s portrait given to,
6.5
; Marie taken as mistress by,
3.1
,
4.12
; physical appearance of,
4.13
; as playboy,
4.14
,
5.4
; in years after Marie’s death,
app1.2

Guiche, Armand de Gramont, Count de

Guimont, Esther,
5.1
,
6.1

Heine, Heinrich,
5.1
,
7.1
,
7.2

Hope, Mrs. Adrian,
7.1
,
app1.1

Hortense (Marie/Alphonsine’s girlfriend),
2.1
,
2.2
,
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3.2
,
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,
4.1

Houssaye, Arsène,
itr.1
,
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,
7.1

Hugo, Victor,
itr.1
,
itr.2
,
5.1

Huzet, Sister Françoise,
1.1
,
5.1

Isidora
(Sand),
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,
nts.1
n

James, Henry,
itr.1
,
itr.2
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itr.3

Janin, Jules,
6.1
,
7.1
; on inauguration festivities for Great Northern Railway,
7.2
; on Liszt and his first encounter with Marie,
7.3
,
7.4
,
7.5
; on Marie’s attendance of Opéra gala,
7.6
; soirée for Liszt premiere at home of,
7.7
; on Spa,
7.8

Jardin Mabille,
3.1
,
3.2

Jockey Club (also known as Le Club des Lions),
5.1
,
5.2
,
7.1

Judith, Mme (actress),
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6.2
,
6.3
,
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; Marie’s affairs confided to,
4.1
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4.2
,
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,
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,
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,
4.6
; on Marie’s association with camellias,
5.1
; Marie’s relationship with,
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July revolution of 1830,
1.1
,
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,
5.1

Koreff, David Ferdinand,
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7.3

Labay, Catherine,
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6.2
,
6.3
,
6.4

Lady of the Camellias, The
(Dumas fils; novel),
itr.1
,
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5.1
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6.1
,
6.2
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,
nts.1
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; Armand character in,
itr.2
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itr.3
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app1.1
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n
,
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n
; Count de G. character in,
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,
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,
7.6
,
app1.2
; Count de N. character in,
6.4
,
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,
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,
nts.4
n
; Marguerite and Armand’s first meeting in,
6.7
; Marguerite’s affliction with tuberculosis in,
6.8
; Marguerite’s burial in,
7.7
; Marguerite’s debts in,
7.8
,
7.9
; Marguerite’s final days and death in,
7.10
,
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,
7.12
; Marguerite’s funeral in,
7.13
; Marguerite’s piano playing in,
7.14
; Marguerite’s sacrifice in,
itr.4
,
5.6
; old duke character in,
6.9
,
6.10
,
6.11
; Prudence character in,
6.12
,
6.13
,
6.14
; source material for, unfamiliar to today’s audiences,
itr.5
; writing of,
app1.3
,
app1.4

Lady of the Camellias, The
(Dumas fils; play),
itr.1
,
itr.2
,
itr.3
,
4.1
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6.1
,
app1.1
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nts.1
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; Armand character in,
itr.4
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itr.5
,
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; ballets based on,
itr.6
,
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,
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; Bernhardt’s revival of (renamed
Camille
),
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,
6.3
,
6.4
,
7.1
; diminished impact of, over time,
itr.8
; Duse’s performance in,
itr.9
; Marguerite’s return to Paris in third act of,
5.1
; Marguerite’s sacrifice in,
5.2
; modern revivals of,
itr.10
; movies based on,
itr.11
,
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,
nts.4
n
; opera based on (
see Traviata, La
)

Laënnec, René-Théophile Hyacinthe,
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,
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Lamartine, Alphonse de,
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5.2

Lami, Eugène,
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5.2

Lanos, Marie (cousin)

Lanos, Mme (aunt),
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3.2

Lautour-Mezeray (l’homme au camélia)
,
n

Leriche, Françoise (later Mme Deshayes; grandmother)

lesbianism,
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,
5.1

Lespinasse, Julie de

Le Vavasseur, Gustave

Lewald, Fanny

Lichnowsky, Prince

Liévenne, Anaïs

Lili (Marie’s protégée)

Liszt, Franz,
itr.1
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itr.2
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; d’Agoult’s affair with,
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,
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,
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; children of,
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; Marie’s desire to live in Weimar with,
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,
7.12
; Marie’s first encounter with,
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,
7.14
; music career of,
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,
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; in years after Marie’s death,
app1.1

Lord A.,
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lorettes: admirers attracted by,
3.1
; bonnets of,
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; grisettes vs.,
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; use of term,
3.6

Louis-Philippe,
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,
app1.1

Lovely Sinner, The
(Houssaye)

Ludolf, Countess Caroline von,
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Lumière, Henry

MacKinnon, Emma,
app1.1
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app1.2

Maison d’Or, La (also known as Maison Dorée),
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Manec, Pierre,
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,
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Manon Lescaut
(Prévost),
itr.1
,
itr.2
,
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,
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,
5.5

Marguerite and Armand
(ballet),
itr.1
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itr.2
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nts.1
n

Matharel de Fiennes, Charles,
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4.2
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,
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,
7.4

Maupassant, Guy de

“M.D.” (Dumas fils)

Méjannes,
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nts.1
n

Méry, Joseph,
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Mesnil, E. du,
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,
1.5

Mesnil, Louis (great-uncle),
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Mesnil, Marie-Françoise (great-aunt),
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3.2

Mogador, Céleste,
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Monselet, Charles

Montel, Tony,
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app1.1
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Montez, Lola,
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Montguyon, Count Fernand de,
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5.1

Montmartre cemetery,
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Murger, Henri,
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2.2

Musset, Alfred de,
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Nana
(Zola),
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6.1

Nazimova, Alla,
itr.1
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n

Nesselrode, Charles (Karl)

Netrebko, Anna

Neumeier, John,
itr.1
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New Hélöise, The
(Rousseau),
5.1
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5.2

Nollet, M.,
2.1
,
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,
3.2

Nonant: Degas’s description of countryside around,
1.1
; Marie/Alphonsine’s childhood in environs of,
1.2
,
1.3
,
1.4
; Marie/Alphonsine’s convalescence in,
1.5
,
3.1
; Perregaux’s inquiries into Marie’s background in,
5.1
,
5.2

Nureyev, Rudolf,
itr.1
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itr.2
,
itr.3

Olivier (artist),
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Opéra (Paris),
itr.1
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; balls at,
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; grand benefit at (1846),
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; Loge Infernale at,
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Orsay, Count d’,
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app1.1

Ozy, Alice,
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app1.1

Paquet, Constant (brother-in-law),
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app1.1
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app1.2

Paquet, Delphine-Adèle (née Plessis; sister),
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; baroness’s pledge and,
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; birth and childhood of,
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; Perregaux’s visit to Nonant and,
5.1
; physical appearance and demeanor of,
3.1
; sister’s attempts to lure her to Paris,
3.2
,
3.3
,
7.3
; sister’s death and,
7.4
,
app1.1
,
app1.2
; sister’s gifts of cash to,
3.4
,
3.5
; sister’s son and,
nts.2
n

Parent-Duchâtelet, Alexandre,
4.1
,
6.1

Paul and Virginia
(Bernardin de Saint-Pierre)

Pené, Henri de (writing under pseudonym Mané),
5.1
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app1.1
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nts.1
n

Perregaux, Count Alphonse de,
5.1
,
5.2

Perregaux, Count Edouard de (Ned),
5.1
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7.2
; Armand character and,
5.2
,
5.3
,
5.4
,
5.5
,
app1.1
; background of,
5.6
; Bougival home of,
5.7
,
7.3
,
nts.1
n
; Count de N. character and,
6.1
,
nts.2
n
; insolvency of,
5.8
,
5.9
,
5.10
,
5.11
,
5.12
,
6.2
; legal proceedings after Marie’s death and,
7.4
; Marie’s acrimonious falling out with,
7.5
; Marie’s burial and,
7.6
,
7.7
,
nts.3
n
; Marie’s correspondence with,
5.13
,
5.14
,
5.15
; Marie’s farewell letter to,
7.8
; Marie’s final days and,
7.9
,
7.10
; at Marie’s funeral,
7.11
,
7.12
; Marie’s hostility toward,
7.13
; marriage of Marie and,
5.16
,
5.17
,
7.14
,
7.15
; military career of,
5.18
,
6.3
,
7.16
,
app1.2
; nature of Marie’s relationship with,
5.19
,
5.20
,
5.21
; Ozy’s affair with,
5.22
; physical appearance and demeanor of,
5.23
; as possible source for Dumas fils’s novel,
app1.3
; in years after Marie’s death,
app1.4
,
app1.5