THE GIRL WHO LOVED CAMELLIAS : THE LIFE AND LEGEND OF MARIE DUPLESSIS
by Julie Kavanagh

Marie Duplessis was a courtesan during the 1840s in Paris. The opera La Traviata and the film Camille were inspired by her. She grew up impoverished with an awful father. Her original name was Alphonsine and when she moved to France at the age of thirteen, she totally reinvented herself.
I didn't finish the book because it became very tedious. There's too many characters that come and go and you feel as if you are reading one giant gossip column from the nineteenth century. Marie has many lovers, they shower her with gifts, she lives like royalty. Soon enough, you are completely bored.
Not recommended.