Camille

A young man of good family falls in love with the most expensive courtesan in Paris, and her price is not the obstacle — his father is. Dumas fils lived it: Marie Duplessis died of consumption at twenty-three, he wrote the novel within a year, and the play and Verdi's opera followed. He spent his life being the illegitimate son of a famous father, and it shows in every page about respectability.