'ICI REPOSE
ALPHONSINE PLESSIS
NÉE LE 15 JANVIER 1824
DÉCÉDÉ LE 3 FÉVRIER 1847.'
Marie Duplessis, or Alphonine Plessis, was the courtisane who died of tuberculosis at the age of twenty-three, and who inspired Alexandre Dumas fils to write La Dame aux camélias (1848), where she name is disguised as Maragurite Gautier.
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