The Lady of the Camellias is a novel by Alexandre Dumas son published in 1848, inspired by his love for the courtesan Marie Duplessis.
The Lady of the Camellias inspired Verdi's opera La Traviata. Many actresses have embodied Marguerite Gautier, Sarah Bernhardt Isabelle Huppert, through Lillian Gish and Greta Garbo.
The Lady of the Camellias tells the love of a young bourgeois Armand Duval for a courtesan Marguerite Gautier, suffering from tuberculosis. Its habit of wearing his bust camellias of different colors.
In the chic Parisian demimonde, where rich light amateurs and women rub shoulders, the young Armand Duval falls for the young and beautiful Marguerite Gautier, one of the queens of this ephemeral world of the wedding.