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THE GIRL of the Camellias By Alexandre Dumas, first published in 1848, and subsequently adapted for the stage. THE GIRL of the Camellias premiered at the Théâtre du Vaudeville in Paris, France on February 2, 1852. The play was an instantaneous success, and Giuseppe Verdi immediately set about putting the story to music. His work became the 1853 opera La Traviata, with the feminine protagonist, Marguerite Gautier, renamed Violetta Valéry. The lead heroine is Marguerite Gautier, a beautiful courtesan who's a "kept woman" by counts and dukes -- men of "Fashionable Society". She meets a middle income lover Armand Duval who does the unpardonable thing of falling jealously in love with her and breaking all convention of what's expected between a courtesan and her admirers. He, of course, has no way of sustaining the typical of living which she actually is accustom. Marguerite, despite her past is rendered virtuous by her love for Armand, and the suffering of both lovers is rendered touchingly.
