madamedubarrys: ♡ A FEW FACTS ABOUT MARIE DUPLESSIS ♡ Met the love of her life, Edouard de Perrega
madamedubarrys: ♡ A FEW FACTS ABOUT MARIE DUPLESSIS ♡ Met the love of her life, Edouard de Perregaux, at a masquerade ball. She only drank pink champagne that night, and she fell in love with the way he uncorked the bottles. ♡ Her favorite theater was the Variétés. ♡ She carried bonbons from the chocolatier and confectioner Boissier’s, which is still in business today. ♡ When she was too sick to go out, she would spend whole afternoons curled up in the pink damask armchair by her window, where she would watch the world go by. ♡ Had two dogs, Duchesse and Chérie. ♡ She slept in white cashmere peignoirs lined with silk in pastel colors. ♡ Her conversation was described as ‘eloquent and dreamy.’ ♡ Loved the works of Lord Byron. ♡ Her bed was made entirely of pink silk. ♡ Her bills indicate that at one point she survived almost exclusively on vanilla Bavarian creams, biscuits, macarons, and meringues glacées. ♡ Her favorite pieces of music were “The Blue Danube” and “Invitation to the Waltz.” ♡ She had a lucky stuffed lizard, which she kept in the pocket of her peignoir. ♡ Was friends with Lola Montez. ♡ She was prescribed milk as a treatment for her consumption, and at one point she owed her dairyman two hundred and fifty francs. ♡ Her stockings were of the palest pink silk. ♡ When she first came to Paris, she liked to go to the fair in St. Cloud with her friends and gorge herself upon macarons and sugar. ♡ Saw Carlotta Grisi as Giselle at the Paris Opera. ♡ Her favorite books were Manon Lescaut and La nouvelle Héloïse. the opera La Traviata is inspired by the book Alexandre Dumas’ La Dame Aux Camélias, which was based on Marie Duplessis (Dumas was one of her lovers) -- source link