- Marguerite Gauthier, known as Camille, is a courtesan in Paris. She falls deeply in love with a young man of promise, Armand Duval. When Armand's father begs her not to ruin his hope of a career and position by marrying Armand, she acquiesces and leaves her lover. However, when poverty and terminal illness overwhelm her, Camille discovers that Armand has not lost his love for her.—Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>
- The incomparable drama of Camille, the »ho loved, opens at the Paris opera, where Armand Duval sees the reigning beauty. Camille, in an opposite box and falls in love at first sight. Armand is a brilliant son of a provincial family, having just completed his law studies, and is to begin the practice of his profession in Paris, but in his infatuation for Camille he drops his work. He secures an introduction and lives openly with Camille until their affair becomes the scandal of Paris and reaches the ears of his father. The latter, in a dramatic interview with Camille, obtains from her a promise to renounce all claims on his son. Armand, who has gone to meet his father, tires of waiting and hurries to Camille's apartment. She has gone, but has left a note in which she tells him she has found another love and must give him up. Stunned, Armand returns home with his father, who arranges a hunting party as a means of diverting Armand. However, Armand broods over Camille's rejection and deserts the party, hurrying back to Paris, where he is met by his friend, Gustave. The latter tells him of Camille's return to her old admirer, DeVaville. That evening he meets her at a brilliant social function and offers her his winnings in the card game as the wealth for lack of which he believed Camille has thrown him over. She declines to return to him and Armand, enraged. throws the money at her face, earning thereby a challenge from DeVaville. They meet the next morning and DeVaville falls. Grief-stricken and weary of Paris. Armand turns to travel as relief from the tragedy of his love. Camille becomes ill. Armand's father, hearing the cause of her illness, writes Armand, urging him to return. He hurries back to Paris and finds Camille lying in a stupor on her couch. She revise on seeing her lover and in another powerful display of emotional love-making falls dead at his feet.
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