Status Updates From La Dame aux camélias

“One day…, I saw a poor girl who was being marched along by two policemen. I do not know what was the matter. All I know is that she was weeping bitterly as she kissed an infant only a few months old, from whom her arrest was to separate her. Since that day I have never dared to despise a woman at first sight.”

😭 wasn’t expecting compassion and empathy for prostitutes in 19th century France

On a toujours associé la campagne à l'amour et l'on a bien fait : rien n'encadre la femme que l'on aime comme le ciel bleu, les senteurs, les fleurs, les brises, la solitude resplendissante des champs ou des bois. Si fort que l'on aime une femme, quelque confiance que l'on ait en elle, quelque certitude sur l'avenir que vous donne son passé, on est toujours plus ou moins jaloux.