Marie Duplessis (born Alphonsine Rose Plessis; 15 January 1824 – 3 February 1847) was a French courtesan and mistress to a number of prominent and wealthy...

The Duplessis Orphans (French: les Orphelins de Duplessis) were a population of Canadian children wrongly certified as mentally ill by the provincial...

Duplessis is a French surname. Notable people with the name include: Georges Duplessis, a French art historian Jerry Duplessis, a composer and record producer...

alone. The title character is Marguerite Gautier, who is based on Marie Duplessis, the real-life lover of the author. Written by Alexandre Dumas fils...

south of France. In Italy Duplessis became fast friends with Joseph Vernet, another Provençal speaking Occitania. Duplessis returned to Carpentras, spent...

Marie Duplessis (reproduced in the Royal Opera's programme for Verdi's 1853 opera La Traviata at the Royal Albert Hall in May 1998). Marie Duplessis was...

Shafiroff. Madame Récamier (1777–1849) Mariquita Sánchez (1786–1868) Marie Duplessis (1824–1847) Caroline Astor (1830–1908) Sarah Bernhardt (1844–1923)...

Saint-Germain-en-Laye, near Paris, to live with his father. There he met Marie Duplessis, a young courtesan who would be the inspiration for the character Marguerite...

director of the Crazy Horse, in February for an article that Françoise-Marie Santucci wrote about Dehar in Libération "Next". Then the same month, Isabelle...

height of its fashion as the luxury flower. The Parisian courtesan Marie Duplessis, who died young in 1847, inspired Dumas' La Dame aux camélias and Verdi's...

Orphelins de Duplessis, made the abuses committed against the Duplessis Orphans known to a wide public and further entrenched the image of Duplessis's era as...

Marguerite Marie Alibert (9 December 1890 – 2 January 1971), also known as Maggie Meller, Marguerite Laurent, and Princess Fahmy, was a French socialite...

Indian tawaif and poet Marie Duplessis (1824–1847), French courtesan, one of the best known from the era of Louis Philippe Marie-Louise O'Murphy (1737–1814)...

Friday" Route 66 Elisa Episode: "The Cruelest Sea of All" Route 66 Marie Duplessis Episode: "Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are!" 1964 Strait-Jacket...

Traviata (1853). The original work was based on a real-life prostitute, Marie Duplessis, with whom Dumas had a relationship. According to Charles Bernheimer...

located here. n°11: Building where Alphonsine Plessis, better known as Marie Duplessis died in February 1847. Her life and death were depicted by Alexandre...

Marie Prevost (born Mary Bickford Dunn; November 8, 1896 – January 21, 1937) was a Canadian-born film actress. During her 20-year career, she made 121...

Gautier, the heroine of the book and subsequent play, was based on Marie Duplessis, 1840s Paris courtesan and mistress to a number of prominent men, including...

there were between 7,000 and 7,500 prostitutes of all sexes in Paris. Marie-Elizabeth Handman and Janine Mossuz-Lavau argue that these figures do not...

La Dame aux camélias, inspired by real life 19th-century courtesan Marie Duplessis, Jenny Smith, in Kurt Weill's Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny...

Dervieux Marie-Anne Detourbay Madame du Barry Marie Duplessis Rosalie Duthé Marthe de Florian Eugénie Fougère Marguerite Gourdan Catherine Grand Marie-Madeleine...

include Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Pierre-Paul Prud'hon and Jacques-Antoine-Marie Lemoine. Among the sculptors who created busts of her are Jean-Baptiste...

In 1632, he was exiled from France after a duel. When Ninon's mother, Marie Barbe de la Marche, died ten years later, the unmarried Ninon entered a...

Marie-Christine Marie-Claire Marie-Claude Marie-Denise Marie Elizabeth Marie-France Marie-Françoise Marie-Georges Marie-Hélène Marie-Jeanne Marie-Julie Marie Louise...

Dervieux Marie-Anne Detourbay Madame du Barry Marie Duplessis Rosalie Duthé Marthe de Florian Eugénie Fougère Marguerite Gourdan Catherine Grand Marie-Madeleine...

Liane de Pougy, TOSD (born Anne-Marie Chassaigne, 2 July 1869 – 26 December 1950), was a Folies Bergère vedette and dancer renowned as one of Paris's...

December 1612 – 12 October 1666). A notable descendant of Charlotte was Marie-Anne de la Trémoille, Princesse des Ursins. Shortly after Henry of Navarre's...

Marie-Louise O'Murphy (French pronunciation: [ma.ʁi.lwiz ɔ‿.myʁ.fi]; 21 October 1737 – 11 December 1814), also variously called Mademoiselle de Morphy...

musicologist, writer Alexandre Dumas, fils (1824–1895), novelist, playwright Marie Duplessis (1824–1847), courtesan, The Lady of the Camellias François Duprat (1941–1978)...

January 8 – Wilkie Collins, English novelist (d. 1889) January 15 – Marie Duplessis, French courtesan (d. 1847) January 21 – Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall"...