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camille Dama cu camelii
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Published January 1, 2014
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Alexandre Dumas fils
411 books548 followersAlexandre Dumas (fils) (son) was born in Paris, France, the illegitimate child of Marie-Laure-Catherine Labay (1794-1868), a dressmaker, and novelist Alexandre Dumas. 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. At that time, the law allowed the elder Dumas to take the child away from his mother. Her agony inspired Dumas fils to write about tragic female characters. 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.
Dumas' paternal great-grandparents were a French nobleman and a Haitian woman. In boarding schools, Dumas fils was constantly taunted by his classmates. These issues all profoundly influenced his thoughts, behaviour, and writing.
During 1844 Dumas moved to Saint-Germain-en-Laye to live with his father. There, he met Marie Duplessis, a young courtesan who would be the inspiration for his romantic novel The Lady of the Camellias. 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. Although he admitted that he had done the adaptation because he needed the money, he had a great success with the play. Thus began the career of Dumas fils as a dramatist, which was not only more renowned than that of his father during his lifetime but also dominated the serious French stage for most of the second half of the 19th century. After this, he virtually abandoned writing novels (though his semi-autobiographical L'Affaire Clemenceau (1867) achieved some success).
On 31 December 1864, in Moscow, Dumas married Nadjeschda von Knorring (1826 – April 1895), daughter of Johan Reinhold von Knorring and wife, and widow of Alexander, Prince Naryschkine. The couple had two daughters: Marie-Alexandrine-Henriette Dumas, born 20 November 1860, who married Maurice Lippmann and was the mother of Serge Napoléon Lippmann (1886–1975) and Auguste Alexandre Lippmann (1881–1960); and Jeanine Dumas (3 May 1867–), who married Ernest d' Hauterive (1864–1957), son of George Lecourt d' Hauterive and wife (married in 1861) Léontine de Leusse. After Naryschkine's death, he married in June 1895 Henriette Régnier de La Brière (1851–1934), without issue.
During 1874, he was admitted to the Académie française, and in 1894 he was awarded the Légion d'honneur.
Alexandre Dumas fils died at Marly-le-Roi, Yvelines, on November 27, 1895 and was interred in the Cimetière de Montmartre in Paris. His grave is, perhaps coincidentally, only some 100 metres away from that of Marie Duplessis.
Dumas' paternal great-grandparents were a French nobleman and a Haitian woman. In boarding schools, Dumas fils was constantly taunted by his classmates. These issues all profoundly influenced his thoughts, behaviour, and writing.
During 1844 Dumas moved to Saint-Germain-en-Laye to live with his father. There, he met Marie Duplessis, a young courtesan who would be the inspiration for his romantic novel The Lady of the Camellias. 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. Although he admitted that he had done the adaptation because he needed the money, he had a great success with the play. Thus began the career of Dumas fils as a dramatist, which was not only more renowned than that of his father during his lifetime but also dominated the serious French stage for most of the second half of the 19th century. After this, he virtually abandoned writing novels (though his semi-autobiographical L'Affaire Clemenceau (1867) achieved some success).
On 31 December 1864, in Moscow, Dumas married Nadjeschda von Knorring (1826 – April 1895), daughter of Johan Reinhold von Knorring and wife, and widow of Alexander, Prince Naryschkine. The couple had two daughters: Marie-Alexandrine-Henriette Dumas, born 20 November 1860, who married Maurice Lippmann and was the mother of Serge Napoléon Lippmann (1886–1975) and Auguste Alexandre Lippmann (1881–1960); and Jeanine Dumas (3 May 1867–), who married Ernest d' Hauterive (1864–1957), son of George Lecourt d' Hauterive and wife (married in 1861) Léontine de Leusse. After Naryschkine's death, he married in June 1895 Henriette Régnier de La Brière (1851–1934), without issue.
During 1874, he was admitted to the Académie française, and in 1894 he was awarded the Légion d'honneur.
Alexandre Dumas fils died at Marly-le-Roi, Yvelines, on November 27, 1895 and was interred in the Cimetière de Montmartre in Paris. His grave is, perhaps coincidentally, only some 100 metres away from that of Marie Duplessis.
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December 14, 2021
''Sărmane creaturi! Dacă e o greşeală a le iubi, e bine cel puţin a le compătimi. Compătimiţi pe orbul care nu a văzut niciodată lumina zilei, pe surdul care nu a auzit niciodată acordurile naturii, pe mutul care nu a putut niciodată să-şi exprime prin viu grai gândurile, şi, sub un fals pretext al pudorii, nu compătimiţi această orbire a lumii, această surzenie a sufletului, acest mutism al conştiintei care duc la nebunie pe nefericita îndurerată şi care, fără voia ei, o fac incapabilă să vadă binele, să audă vocea Domnului şi să rostească limba curată a dragostei şi credinţei."
August 24, 2022
Am recitit cartea aceasta dupa 10 ani și m-a mișcat la fel, dacă nu mai rău. Căci pe atunci, nu avem nici varsta la care sa cunosc iubiri și nici discernamantul vietii. Iubirea dintre Arman Duval si curtezana M.Gautier este ceva care se intampla o data in viata, ceva profund, intens, RECIPROC.
Superb, Alexandre Dumas!!!
Superb, Alexandre Dumas!!!
February 23, 2022
,,Ce sublima naivitate e iubirea!” 😻
April 9, 2024
acest roman NU este despre dragoste,
acest roman este o personificare a viciilor, este despre (in)compatibilitatea slabiciunilor precum egoismul, mandria, opulenta, minciuna care incearca sa gaseasca un echilibru de existenta...si ghiceste ce? Nu o gasesc!
Un tanar egoist si plin de vicii se indragosteste de o dama cu naravuri `usurele` (NU mai putin vicioasa), iar relatia lor se izbeste de reputatia si mandria tatalui tanarului indragostit...
este o recomandare totusi pentru simplul fapt ca e istorie reala...si cate nu mai sunt din astea
acest roman este o personificare a viciilor, este despre (in)compatibilitatea slabiciunilor precum egoismul, mandria, opulenta, minciuna care incearca sa gaseasca un echilibru de existenta...si ghiceste ce? Nu o gasesc!
Un tanar egoist si plin de vicii se indragosteste de o dama cu naravuri `usurele` (NU mai putin vicioasa), iar relatia lor se izbeste de reputatia si mandria tatalui tanarului indragostit...
este o recomandare totusi pentru simplul fapt ca e istorie reala...si cate nu mai sunt din astea
November 19, 2023
Da...da! O carte care te face sa SIMTI. O carte cu o poveste de dragoste atat de tragica, dar frumoasa.
"De ce, luandu-ne cu incapatanare dupa parerile acestei lumi, care se face mai aspra decat e pentru ca sa se creada in puterea ei, de ce-am respinge, alaturi de aceasta lume, suflete ale caror rani sangereaza adesea si prin care, intocmai ca sangele stricat al unui bolnav, se scurge tot raul trecutului, suflete ce nu asteapta decat o mana prietena care sa le aduca alinarea si tamaduirea?"
"De ce, luandu-ne cu incapatanare dupa parerile acestei lumi, care se face mai aspra decat e pentru ca sa se creada in puterea ei, de ce-am respinge, alaturi de aceasta lume, suflete ale caror rani sangereaza adesea si prin care, intocmai ca sangele stricat al unui bolnav, se scurge tot raul trecutului, suflete ce nu asteapta decat o mana prietena care sa le aduca alinarea si tamaduirea?"
December 29, 2024
Citate:
„Dumnezeu aproape întotdeauna îi deschide două cărări ce o duc spre tărâmul binelui; aceste cărări sunt durerea şi iubirea.”
„Încăperea mi se părea acum prea mică pentru a putea să cuprindă fericirea ce mă stăpânea; aveam nevoie de natura întreagă spre a-mi deschide inima.”
„Niciodată până ieri n-am bănuit că o rază de soare poate ascunde atâta bucurie, dulceaţă, mângâiere.”
„Dumnezeu aproape întotdeauna îi deschide două cărări ce o duc spre tărâmul binelui; aceste cărări sunt durerea şi iubirea.”
„Încăperea mi se părea acum prea mică pentru a putea să cuprindă fericirea ce mă stăpânea; aveam nevoie de natura întreagă spre a-mi deschide inima.”
„Niciodată până ieri n-am bănuit că o rază de soare poate ascunde atâta bucurie, dulceaţă, mângâiere.”
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