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Index
Achard, Amédée (writing under pseudonym Grimm), 7.1, 7.2
affaire Clemenceau, L’ (Dumas fils), 6.1, 6.2
Agoult, Countess Marie d’, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6, 7.7, 7.8, app1.1
Aguado de las Marismas, Count Olympe, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5; background of, 7.6; end of Marie’s affair with, 7.7; Marie’s debts settled by, 7.8, 7.9; Marie’s final hours and, 7.10, 7.11; at Marie’s funeral, 7.12; as photographer, app1.1; society women’s introduction to Marie arranged by, 7.13; in years after Marie’s death, app1.2
Anderson, Mme (baroness), 6.1, 6.2
Argentelles, Anne d’
Arvers, Félix, 5.1, 6.1
Ashton, Frederick, itr.1, itr.2, nts.1n, nts.2n
Assommoir, L’ (Zola)
Badeblatt, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3
Baden-Baden, 3.1; Marie’s sojourns in, 4.1, 4.2, 7.1
ballet: The Lady of the Camellias as source material for, itr.1; Parisian society of 1840s and, 5.1
Balzac, Honoré de, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 6.1
Banville, Théodore de, itr.1, 1.1
Barbey d’Aurevilly, Jules
Beaconsfield, Lord
“Beatrice Palmato” (Wharton)
Beauvoir, Roger de, itr.1, 5.1, 5.2, 7.1
berceau, Le (Viennne)
Berlioz, Hector, 5.1, 7.1
Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Jacques-Henri
Bernhardt, Sarah, itr.1, itr.2, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1
Berry, Duchess de, 1.1, 1.2, 5.1
Blessington, Lady, 4.1, 4.2, nts.1n
Bloody February (1848)
Boisard, Agathe and Jean-François (cousins), 1.1, 1.2
Boisard, Roch (cousin), 1.1, 5.1
Bois de Boulogne, as gathering spot
Bolognini, Mauro, itr.1, 1.1, 1.2
Bonaparte, Louis-Napoléon, itr.1, app1.1
Bordeaux, Henri, Duke of, 1.1, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1
Bouffé, Marie, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, app1.1
Bougival, Marie and Perregaux’s home in, 5.1, 5.2, nts.1n
Cabanes, C., 6.1, 7.1
Café de Paris, 4.1, 5.1; Le Souper des Douze at, 5.2, 6.1
Callas, Maria
camellias: Marie’s association with, 5.1, nts.1n; as status symbol, 5.2
Camille (1921 movie), itr.1, nts.1n
Camille (1936 movie)
Camille (American production of play The Lady of the Camellias)
cancan (or cachucha), 2.1, 2.2
Carmen (Bizet)
Carolyne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein, Princess
Castellane, Count Pierre de, n
Chanel, Coco
Chaplin, Charles (artist), 7.1, nts.1n
Charles X
Chartreuse, La (Paris)
Chomel, Auguste-François
Claudin, Gustave, 1.1, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3
Clotilde (maid), 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6, 7.7, 7.8
colporteur, Le (Maupassant)
Conrad, Peter
Consumptives and Great Lovers (Cabanes)
Contades, Henri de, 6.1, nts1.1
Corsaire, Le
Courrier de Paris
courtesans (demimonde), 2.1, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3; after beauty and youth had faded, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3
Cukor, George
dame à la licorne, La
dancing, at public balls
Daremberg, Georges
Davaine, Casimir, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3
Degas, Edgar
Déjazet, Eugène, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, app1.1
Déjazet, Virginie, 6.1, 7.1
Delacroix, Eugène, 5.1, 6.1, 7.1
Delessert, Edouard, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, app1.1
Delessert, Valentine
Delisle (Perregaux’s guardian)
Delvau, Alfred, 4.1, 7.1
demimonde. See courtesans
Denis, M and Mme (innkeepers)
Descours, Louis (grandfather)
Descours, Marin (great-grandfather), 1.1
Deshayes, Etienne
Deshayes, Françoise Leriche (grandmother)
Deshayes, Julie (aunt and godmother)
Deshayes, Louis (grandfather), 1.1, 1.2, 7.1
Devéria, Achille, 2.1, 5.1
Dezoutter (hairdresser)
Dickens, Charles, itr.1, 6.1, app1.1, app1.2
Didier, Alexis
Disraeli, Benjamin, 4.1, 4.2
Doche, Eugénie, itr.1, itr.2, itr.3
du Hays, Charles, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, nts1.1
du Hays, Count and Countess, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6
Duke de R (Marie/Alphonsine’s benefactor), 3.1, 4.1, 4.2
Dumas, Alexandre, fils, itr.1, itr.2, itr.3, itr.4, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 7.2, nts1.1, nts.1n; auction of Marie’s belongings and, app1.1, app1.2; compassionate nature of, 6.3; end of Marie’s affair with, 6.4, 6.5; father’s relationship with, 6.6, 6.7, 6.8; as journalist, 6.9; The Lady of the Camellias by, itr.5 (see also Lady of the Camellias, The); Marie’s association with camellias and, 5.2; Marie’s excursions outside of Paris with, 6.10; Marie’s first meeting with, 6.11, 6.12, nts.2n; Marie’s innate sensuality and, 6.13; Marie’s tuberculosis and, 6.14, 6.15, 6.16; Marseille sojourn of, 6.17, 6.18, 6.19; physical appearance of, 6.20, 6.21; Sins of Youth by, itr.6, 6.22, 6.23, 7.3
Dumas, Alexandre, père, itr.1, itr.2, itr.3, itr.4, 3.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, app1.1, app1.2, app1.3; Caribbean ancestry of, 6.4, 6.5; on Marguerite’s return to Paris in third act, 5.6; on Marie’s innate sensuality, 6.6; Marie’s interest in, 6.7, 6.8, 6.9; on Marie’s study of acting, 5.7; son’s relationship with, 6.10, 6.11, 6.12
Duplessis, Marie (née Rose-Alphonsine Plessis): acting studied by, 5.1, 5.2; Alphonsine Plessis’s name changed to, 3.1, 4.1, nts.1n; ancestry of, 1.1; birth of, 1.2, 1.3; Bougival home of, 5.3, 5.4, 7.1, nts.2n; burial of, 7.2; camellia associated with, 5.5, nts.3n; child-hood of, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6; convalescing in Nonant after birth of her son, 1.7, 3.2; countess title of, 7.3; death of, itr.1, itr.2, 7.4; debts of, 7.5, 7.6, 7.7, 7.8, 7.9, 7.10, 7.11; early life of, 1.8, 1.9; English baroness’s offer and, 6.1, 6.2; first weeks in Paris of, 2.1; funeral of, 7.12; horses as passion of, 1.10, 1.11, 4.2, 5.6, 6.3, 6.4, 7.13, 7.14; innate sensuality of, 6.5; lavish Paris apartments of, 4.3, 6.6; library of, 4.4, 5.7, 5.8, 6.7, app1.1; Manon Lescaut as alter ego of, 5.9, 5.10, 5.11, 5.12; marriage of Perregaux and, 5.13, 5.14, 7.15, 7.16; physical appearance and demeanor of, 1.12, 2.2, 2.3, 4.5, 4.6, 5.15, 5.16, 7.17, 7.18; piano playing of, 6.8, 7.19, 7.20, nts.4n; portraits of, 4.7, 5.17, 5.18, 6.9, 7.21, 7.22, 7.23, 7
.24, app1.2, nts.5n, nts.6n, nts.7n; posthumous auction of belongings of, 6.10, app1.3, app1.4; posthumous destruction of personal correspondence of, app1.5, nts1.1, nts1.2; pregnancy and childbearing of, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, nts.8n; religious feelings of, 7.25, 7.26; schooling of, 1.13; seduction and sex as youthful interests of, 1.14, 1.15; sent to Paris, 1.16, 2.4; sexual services first sold by, 1.17; as shopgirl in Paris, 2.5, 2.6, 3.6; soirées of, 7.27; stuffed green lizard of, 1.18, 7.28, app1.6, nts.9n, nts.10n; theater frequented by, 5.19, 5.20, 7.29; transformed into worldly and educated woman, 4.8, 4.9, 5.21; tuberculosis suffered by, 4.10, 6.11, 6.12, 6.13, 6.14, 7.30, 7.31
Duprez, Gilbert
Duse, Eleonora
Ernestine (Marie/Alphonsine’s girlfriend), 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4.1
espionage
Etienne (coachman), 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4
Fechter, Charles
feminist, Dumas fils’s first use of term
Fleury, M., 2.1, 3.1
folie de grandeur, meaning of
Fontaine, Clara
Fonteyn, Margot, itr.1, itr.2, nts.1n
Foreign Legion, 5.1, 6.1, 7.1, app1.1
Forster, John
foyer de la danse, Le (Lami)
Garbo, Greta, itr.1, itr.2
Gautier, Théophile, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 7.1, app1.1; approached to write Marie’s story, app1.2; auction of Marie’s belongings and, app1.3, app1.4
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.1n
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, 7.1, nts1.1
Guiche, Agénor, Duke de, 4.1, 4.2, 6.1, 6.2, 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
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