The Girl Who Loved Camellias: The Life And Legend Of Marie Duplessis (2013) - Plot & Excerpts
When he arrived she was waiting impatiently, saying that she wanted to have a long talk with him and had ordered dinner from Chez Voisin. They fell into conversation, but it was not long before Marie broke off to fetch something from the mantelpiece. It was a cameo of a young woman. With a tiny beribboned waist and light brown hair curling onto her shoulders, she was exceptionally small and delicate, with an oval face, neat little mouth, and melancholy, heavy-lidded eyes. Romain recognized her instantly as Marie’s mother. The portrait had been given to her by an Englishwoman who had visited earlier that week, saying that she was there on behalf of “Madame la baronne Anderson,” for whom Marie Plessis had worked as a lady’s maid after fleeing Nonant in 1828. Over two years Marie had become more of a companion than a servant to her employer, who could sympathize with her lasting sadness as she, too, had lost a child, a daughter who had died at the age of fifteen. While spending the summer months of 1830 on Lake Geneva, Marie became fatally ill, a cause Vienne attributes to her broken heart.
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