Alexandre Dumas, Junior

The author of Camille was Alexandre Dumas Junior, the illegitimate child of Marie-Laure-Catherine Labay and Alexandre Dumas. He was born on 27th January 1824 and in 1844 he moved to Saint Germain en laye to live with his father. It was here that he met Marie Duplessis a young infamous Courtesan with whom he had a year long affair.
His work was often inspired by his life and only five months after Marie's death he Wrote Camille.
He later moved to Paris where his career really took off and eventually overshadowed that of his father. His work dominated the French stage for the second half of the 19th Century.
In 1864 he married Nadjeschda von Knorring and had two daughters. After her death he remarried Henrietta Regnier in 1895.