Cimetière de Montmartre (continued): #20: Marie Duplessis

'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.