Page 1 Author Bio
Alexandre Dumas (27 July 1824 – 27 November 1895) was a French playwright and novelist. Dumas the Illegitimate son of Dumas and a seamith, Catherine Rabe, was born in Paris, France. After Dumas became famous, he mixed with high society and abandoned their mother and son.
At an early age, dumas was first raised by his mother and received a good family education. His brilliant, burly, and twilight father confused and frightened him. The young dramatist always spent his evenings at the Theatre of Odeon, flirting with actresses and putting his family responsibilities behind.
After the success of Henry III and His Court (1829), Dumas was quickly compared to Winnie and Hugo. The Duke of Orléans gave him the position of assistant administrator of the royal library. The brash young playwright is determined to abandon his wife and son. Under the pretext that the air in the countryside was good, he relocated the mother and son to a village called Passy. No matter how harsh the living conditions, little Dumas grew up there, and his heart was filled with reverence for his genius father.
In 1831, Dumas jr. and his mother watched the first performance of Dumas's play Antony. The heroine of the play was Marie Dolval, Dumas's mistress; her superb acting skills made the play a great success. At this time, Dumas was fighting with Belle Claire Semel, so he sent the seven-year-old Dumas to boarding school.
Dumas's memories of life at boarding school are terrible. His last novel, The Clemento Affair, deals with the pain he felt when he broke up with his mother and the discrimination and abuse of his illegitimate son by his classmates at boarding school.
In 1842, Dumas met Marie Dupresie, the prototype of Margaret in what would later be the la Traviata, and fell in love with her at first sight. Mary died of illness in Paris in 1847. Dumas was so grief-stricken that he wrote this story into a novel, La Traviata, which made him famous in one fell swoop.
In 1852, when Dumas's play La Traviata was in exile in Brussels, Dumas telegraphed him: "The pomp and circumstance on the first day was enough to mislead you for your work." Dumas called back and said, "Boy, my best work is you."
On 21 February 1875, Dumas was elected to the Académie française by a majority of twenty-two votes, which was the highest honor at the time, making his career a success, much luckier than Balzac and Alexandre Dumas, who did not have the cause.
In 1895 Dumas remarried Henry Ette Renier, 40 years younger than him, and dumas died on November 27 six months later.
Page 2 Celebrity Reviews
The composer Verdi once commented on La Traviata:
"Because of love, bravely cross the Mendy Rite; Because of the misunderstanding,
A lifetime of regret and regret,
A lamentable love story..."
The prototype of the heroine Margaret in "La Traviata" is Marie Dupresy, and the prototype of the male protagonist Armand should be Dumas, the author of Traviata. And Mademoiselle Marie Dupresie, a parisian prostitute who had a fond past with Mr. Dumas the Younger. When the young Marie Dupresi died of illness, this tragic and realistic emotional combination finally led to Dumas's creation of eternal love.
The story of the heroine Marguerite and the male protagonist Armand in "La Traviata" should be the epitome of the story between Dumas and Marie Dupresi, and Mr. Dumas may be telling his thoughts and love for Marie Dupresi through this book. Although Miss Mary Dupresie is the prototype of Margaret, there seems to be a great difference between them when they read the works closely.
Page 3 Background of writing
Alphoncina Presy is the prototype for the heroine of Dumas's La Traviata. Everything about her is connected to a world-famous artistic figure, the La Traviata. This is because she had a relationship with an important writer in the history of French literature, who was Alexander Dumas. In a society full of desires, especially his father's extravagant and lavish lifestyle, he set a realistic "example" for this young man who was not deeply involved in the world, and he finally learned badly and began to try the absurd life of chasing dogs and horses.
Alphoncina Placei has lived in this world for only twenty-three years, but one can say that she has tasted both the bitterness and misery of life and the luxuries of the world. Many of her lovers were prominent figures. It was by virtue of the "promotion" of such a type of figure that Alphoncina Plessy strides into the high society of Paris and soon became a dazzling star in the social arena of Paris. At the cost of her appearance and flesh, she bought a life of immense luxury. Not only was she completely freed from poverty, but she also seemed to be cut off from her poor past, and she changed her name, and the former Alphoncina Presy became the current Mary DuPresi.
In September 1844, Alphoncina became Dumas's lover. Together, they had lived a short, but poetic, life full of passion and dreams, which caused both of them to be spiritually satisfied for a time. However, dumas's personality still has a clumsy side in his personality, he lives in an environment of Paris under the wind of the world, and Alphonciina is a dusty woman, all of which determines that Dumas's feelings for her are quite complicated, including sympathy and love, but also contains a hunting, blasphemous psychology.
Dumas has a strong possessiveness towards Alphoncina, and when she becomes his mistress, he cannot tolerate Alphoncina's association with other boyfriends. But helplessly, Alphoncia could not change her life, she needed men who were richer than Dumas, and without them she would not be able to maintain a life that might seem brilliant and dazzling to her. This prompted Dumas and Alphoncina to finally break up.
Due to the hardships of her childhood and the indulgence of her eroticism after arriving in Paris, Alphoncina's physical health was severely damaged and she contracted tuberculosis. He died on February 3, 1847.
Page 4 Main content
Margaret turned out to be a poor country girl, and after coming to Paris, she began a career of selling jokes. Due to the appearance of flowers and moons, the aristocratic princes of Paris competed to chase and became a popular "social star". She always dressed up with a bouquet of camellias, known as the "Traviata Woman".
Traviata suffered from lung disease, and while undergoing treatment in the mineral springs, there was a noble lady in the sanatorium, who was about the same size and appearance as Margaret, but the lung disease had reached the third stage and died soon after. The young lady's father, the Duke of Juradi, stumbled upon Margaret to resemble his daughter and took her in as his daughter.
Margaret reveals her origins, and the Duke promises to cover her entire daily expenses if she can change her past life. But Margaret could not do it completely, so the Duke cut the money in half, and Margaret could not make ends meet, and now she was in debt of tens of thousands of francs.
One night at more than 10 o'clock, after Margaret returned, a group of guests came to visit. Neighbours Prydance brought two young men, one of whom was Armand, the son of the Commissioner of Revenue, Mr Dival, who was madly in love with the Traviata. Even a year ago, when Margaret was ill, Armand came every day to inquire about her condition, but refused to leave her name.
Prudence told Margaret about Armand's obsession, and she was touched. While Margaret is dancing with her friends, her illness suddenly flares up, and Armand is very concerned to persuade her not to harm herself in this way, and confesses her love to Margaret.
He told Traviata that he still treasured the buttons she had lost six months earlier. Margaret's already thin heart was once again moved by true feelings, and she gave Armand a camellia flower in her heart.
Armand's sincere love inspired Marguerite's desire for life, and she was determined to get rid of the boring Parisian life and live with Armand in the countryside for a while. She was ready to plan a sum of money alone, so she asked Armand to leave her for one night. When Armand went out to look for Margaret, he happened to run into Margaret's former lover and became jealous. He wrote a fiercely worded letter to Margaret, saying that he did not want to be the object of ridicule and that he would leave Paris.
But he did not go, Margaret was his whole hope and life, and he knelt down and asked Margaret to forgive him, and Margaret confided to Armand, "You are the one I have called for in the troubled loneliness of life."
After hard work, Margaret and Armand rented a house outside Paris. When the Duke learned of this, he cut off Margaret's financial resources. Carrying Armand on her back, she pawned her gold and silver jewelry and carriages and horses to cover her living expenses. Armand learns of this and decides to transfer an inheritance left to him by his mother in order to pay off Margaret's debts. The agent asked him to sign, and he left Margaret for Paris.
The letter had been written by Armand's father, Monsieur Duval, who wanted to trick Armand into leaving and then go to find Margaret. Telling Margaret that his daughter was in love with a decent teenager, the family, after learning about Armand's relationship with Margaret, said that if Armand did not break off relations with Margaret, he would retire from marriage. Margaret pleaded bitterly with Monsieur Duval that if she were to sever ties with Armand, it would be tantamount to her life, but Monsieur Dival would not back down. For armand and his family, she had to make sacrifices and swore to break off friendship with Armand.
Margaret, very sad, wrote a letter of renunciation to Armand, and then returned to Paris and began the absurd life of the past. She accepted the quest of Baron Valville, who helped her pay off all her debts and redeem her jewelry and carriage. Armand also returned home with his father in a bitter mood.
Armand still missed Margaret deeply, and he came to Paris in despair. He is determined to avenge Margaret's "betrayal". He found Margaret and embarrassed her at every turn. She is scolded as a conscienceless, heartless and unrighteous prostitute who sells love as a commodity. Margaret faces Armand's misunderstanding and sadly advises him to forget herself and never see each other again. Armand asked her to flee Paris with her, to a place where no one knew them, and to cling to their love.
Margaret said she couldn't do that, because she had already taken an oath, and Armand, mistakenly believing that she had taken a vow with the Baron, angrily wrote to Margaret insulting her and sent her a stack of money. Margaret was stimulated by this and fell ill. The New Year was approaching, Margaret's condition was more serious, her face was pale, no one had come to visit her, and she felt particularly lonely. Monsieur Duval wrote to tell her that he thanked Marguerite for keeping her promise and had written to tell Armand the truth of the matter, and now Marguerite's only hope was to see Armand again.
Before dying, the creditors came, took the IOUs, and forced her to pay back the debt. The executioner was ordered to carry out the judgment, seizing all her property and auctioning it only after her death. As she lay dying, she kept shouting Armand's name, "silent tears flowing from her eyes." She never saw her beloved again.
After her death, only a kind neighbor, Millie, was buried for her. When Armand returned to Paris, she handed her a copy of Margaret's diary. From the diary, Armand learned of her noble heart. "Except that your insult is evidence that you have always loved me, I seem to feel that the more you torture me, the day you know the truth, the more noble I will appear in your eyes." 」 Armand, with infinite remorse and sorrow, buried Marguerite's tomb and filled her grave with white camellias.
Page 5 Quotes
1, win a heart that has not been in love, which is equivalent to entering an undefended city.
2. We must have done too many sins in our previous lives, and then we will enjoy all the glory in the next life, so God will make us go through the torments of atonement and tempering in this life.
3, finally I calmed down a little, looked around, and was very surprised to find that others still live and did not stop because of my misfortune.
4) In addition to the fact that your insult is evidence that you have always loved me, I seem to feel that the more you torture me, the day you know the truth, I will appear more noble in your eyes.
5, a person can be satisfied with vanity when there is no love in his heart, but once there is love, vanity becomes vulgar.
6) Everything exists in the small, and I am the one who believes this statement. Although the child is young, he is a future adult; although the head is narrow, it contains infinite thoughts; the eyeballs are only a little large, but it can see the vast world.
(To be continued)
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