Marie Duplessis [SEP] medical condition
Marie Duplessis died of tuberculosis at the age of 23 on 3 February 1847. Her husband, the comte de Perregaux, and her former lover, the Baltic-German count Gustav Ernst von Stackelberg, were by her side. Within a few weeks of her death, her belongings were auctioned off to pay her debts.
Her funeral in Montmartre Cemetery in Paris was attended by hundreds of people.
Novel, play, and opera.
Dumas' romantic novel "La Dame aux Camélias" was based on Duplessis
- Child abuse
- Magdalene asylum
- Religious abuse
- List of Indian residential schools in Canada
- Léo-Paul Lauzon
References.
- Paulin, Marguerite. "Maurice Duplessis: Powerbroker, Politician", XYZ Publishing, Montreal, 2005
- Thifault, Marie-Claude and Perreault, Isabelle. "The Social Integration of the Mentally Ill in Quebec Prior to the Bédard Report of 1962", "Canadian Bulletin of Medical History", 2002, vol.29, no.1
Further reading.