Although he admitted that he had done the adaptation because he needed the money, he had a great success with the play. Adapted into a play, it was titled in English (especially in the United States) as Camille and is the basis for Verdi's 1853 opera, La Traviata. There, he met Marie Duplessis, a young courtesan who would be the inspiration for his romantic novel The Lady of the Camellias. These issues all profoundly influenced his thoughts, behaviour, and writing.ĭuring 1844 Dumas moved to Saint-Germain-en-Laye to live with his father. In boarding schools, Dumas fils was constantly taunted by his classmates. In almost all of his writings, he emphasized the moral purpose of literature and in his play The Illegitimate Son (1858) he espoused the belief that if a man fathers an illegitimate child then he has an obligation to legitimize the child and marry the woman.ĭumas' paternal great-grandparents were a French nobleman and a Haitian woman. Her agony inspired Dumas fils to write about tragic female characters. At that time, the law allowed the elder Dumas to take the child away from his mother. During 1831 his father legally recognized him and ensured that the young Dumas received the best education possible at the Institution Goubaux and the Collège Bourbon. Alexandre Dumas (fils) (son) was born in Paris, France, the illegitimate child of Marie-Laure-Catherine Labay (1794-1868), a dressmaker, and novelist Alexandre Dumas.
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