1847 - In the gay half-world of Paris, the gentlemen of the day met the girls of
the moment at certain theatre, balls and gambling clubs where the code was
discretion ... but the game was romance. This is the story of one of those
pretty creatures who lived on the quicksands of popularity - Marguerite
Gautier, who brightened her wit with champagne, and sometimes her eyes
with tears. From the novel of Alexandre Dumas this is the story which Verdi
took for La Traviata.