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Camille

by Alexandre Dumas

La Dame aux Camélias a novel by Alexandre Dumas fils, first published in 1848 and subsequently adapted by Dumas for the stage. The play premiered at the Théâtre du Vaudeville in Paris, France, on February 2, 1852. The play was an instant success, and Giuseppe Verdi immediately set about putting the story to music. His work became the 1853 opera La traviata, with the female protagonist, Marguerite Gautier, renamed Violetta Valéry.

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English

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French

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Dumas began his career by writing plays, which were successfully produced from the first. He also wrote numerous magazine articles and travel books; his published works totalled 100,000 pages. In the...

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