The passionate love of Alexandre Dumas with Marie Duplessis, a 19th-century courtesan famous for her unparalleled beauty, inspired him to write this masterpiece that made him known worldwide through the theatrical adaptation of his work and the opera La Traviata by Giuseppe Verdi - which is based on the same work. Alexandre Dumas fils takes the form of the narrator in his novel, in which the protagonist Armand Duval recounts step-by-step his love for the young Marguerite Gautier. A pure love, which ultimately succumbs to social constraints and ends forever with the death of Marguerite.