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Concocting La Dame aux camelias: blood, tears, and other fluids.(Alexandre Dumas fils)
; In June 1847, the 23-year old Dumas fils set out to write a novel loosely based...The textual strategy employed by Dumas ills to craft the story of this doomed...moral, and literary goals of Dumas fils' project. (2) In the first part of...
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TITLE DEED HOW DID CELEBRATED BOOKS GET THEIR NAMES? Alexandre Dumas fils's La Dame aux Camlias
; ...Gautier, the "Lady with the Camellias'' in Dumas's six-hankie novel of 1848 - the book which...Parisian courtesan Marie Duplessis, who became Dumas's lover for a short time between 1844 and...misspelled "Camllia'', giving it one "l''. Dumas followed suit, admitting it was through...
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Une Amitie litteraire: Chateaubriand et Dumas pere.
; ...un an avant la naissance de Dumas. Chateaubriand appartient...alors que les antecedents de Dumas sont plus meles: son grand-pe...Thomas-Alexandre (1762-1806) (fils illegitime reconnu par son...esclave haitienne, Cesette Dumas (morte en 1772), dont il a...l'Eglise et des Bourbons, Dumas n'a ...
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Dumas, the prodigious: a profile of Alexandre Dumas.
; ...and now a deputy, and to his own splendid handwriting, Dumas found himself appointed as a clerk in the offices of the...Byron, Victor Hugo. Daunted but not the least discouraged, Dumas undertook this ambitious reading program with all the energy...six and a half feet--blond, blue-eyed, and well built, ...
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INTRODUCING HIS EMOTIONAL `LADY' TO BOSTON CHOREOGRAPHER'S STORY BALLET BASED ON DUMAS NOVEL
; ...and finally gives up life itself, dying alone. The high drama of "La Dame aux Camellias," the 1848 novel by Alexandre Dumas fils, has proven irresistible to composers, choreographers, playwrights, and filmmakers, sometimes with results that rival...
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(theater reviews)
; ...and his illegitimate son, Alexandre Dumas fils, who won his own spot in the romantic...lines (such as the wry comment by Dumas fils that his prodigal father was a child...plays fast and loose with the facts. Dumas fils spends much of the play agonizing...
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Getting to the Heart Of 'Camille'; "Camille" Through Oct. 9 Round House Theatre Bethesda 240-644-1100
; ...sentiment. When the Alexandre Dumas fils novel "La Dame aux Camelias...and different generations." Dumas's classic story has been interpreted...is really more of a return to Dumas's original text than a modernization...to the nonlinear narrative of Dumas's compelling tale. Robison says...
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HISTORICAL FICTION A NEWLY DISCOVERED NOVEL BY A GREAT YARN- SPINNER SHOULD BE A CAUSE FOR REJOICING ... JONATHAN BATE IS NOT SO SURE
; ...to his name, is the less predictable figure of Alexandre Dumas. 'After God,' he once said, 'Shakespeare has created most...thinking that he wanted people to say: 'After Shakespeare, Dumas has created most.' Born in 1802, he had an exotic pedigree...Pantheon in Paris and reburied with full national honours. ...
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Garbo portrayed some real history
; ...wanted to see the name of Alexandre Dumas fils, the French novelist who wrote the...unforgettable delight. Alexandre Dumas fils "was a Negro," according to my brother...needed at that time. It was wonderful. Dumas fils not only was of African descent...
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'Camille' shorn of its romance; Raw at Round House.(ARTS & CULTURE)(THEATER)
; ...adaptation of La Dame aux Camelias by Alexandre Dumas fils, Marguerite Gautier might as well replace...his base version of the true story of Dumas' love affair with a country girl turned...brutally honest and pierced with grief. Dumas portrayed a money-mad, licentious world...
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