“The Lady of the Camellias” is a novel by Alexandre Dumas (son), genre: foreign classics.
A love story between a Parisian courtesan and the young, romantic Armand Duval. The prototype of Marguerite Gautier was Dumas’s lover, Marie Duplessis, who died of tuberculosis at the age of 23. Because of her illness, strong smells were unbearable; the scent of roses or hyacinths would make her dizzy. That is why she loved camellias, which almost have no scent.