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...
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The Duplessis Orphans (French: les Orphelins de Duplessis) were a population of Canadian children wrongly certified as mentally ill by the provincial...
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Duplessis is a French surname. Notable people with the name include: Georges Duplessis, a French art historian Jerry Duplessis, a composer and record producer...
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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...
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south of France. In Italy Duplessis became fast friends with Joseph Vernet, another Provençal speaking Occitania. Duplessis returned to Carpentras, spent...
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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...
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Shafiroff. Madame Récamier (1777–1849) Mariquita Sánchez (1786–1868) Marie Duplessis (1824–1847) Caroline Astor (1830–1908) Sarah Bernhardt (1844–1923)...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Marguerite Alibert (redirect from Marguerite Marie Alibert)
Marguerite Marie Alibert (9 December 1890 – 2 January 1971), also known as Maggie Meller, Marguerite Laurent, and Princess Fahmy, was a French socialite...
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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)...
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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...
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Traviata (1853). The original work was based on a real-life prostitute, Marie Duplessis, with whom Dumas had a relationship. According to Charles Bernheimer...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Dervieux Marie-Anne Detourbay Madame du Barry Marie Duplessis Rosalie Duthé Marthe de Florian Eugénie Fougère Marguerite Gourdan Catherine Grand Marie-Madeleine...
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include Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Pierre-Paul Prud'hon and Jacques-Antoine-Marie Lemoine. Among the sculptors who created busts of her are Jean-Baptiste...
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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...
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Marie-Christine Marie-Claire Marie-Claude Marie-Denise Marie Elizabeth Marie-France Marie-Françoise Marie-Georges Marie-Hélène Marie-Jeanne Marie-Julie Marie Louise...
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Dervieux Marie-Anne Detourbay Madame du Barry Marie Duplessis Rosalie Duthé Marthe de Florian Eugénie Fougère Marguerite Gourdan Catherine Grand Marie-Madeleine...
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Liane de Pougy (redirect from Anne-Marie Chassaigne)
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...
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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...
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Marie-Louise O'Murphy (French pronunciation: [ma.ʁi.lwiz ɔ‿.myʁ.fi]; 21 October 1737 – 11 December 1814), also variously called Mademoiselle de Morphy...
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musicologist, writer Alexandre Dumas, fils (1824–1895), novelist, playwright Marie Duplessis (1824–1847), courtesan, The Lady of the Camellias François Duprat (1941–1978)...
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January 8 – Wilkie Collins, English novelist (d. 1889) January 15 – Marie Duplessis, French courtesan (d. 1847) January 21 – Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall"...
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