#alexandre dumas fils
I mean maybe it’s not important, but does anyone else wonder what Christian did after writing Satine and his story? Did he publish it? Did he become famous? Was that the only story that he wrote, or did he have other work after? Did he write more plays? Or did his and Satine’s fucking story actually become a play and he got famous from that? Did he ever find love again after Satine? Like, I just wanna know how Christian’s life was after Moulin Rouge ended. I’m genuinely curious and I feel like i’m probably not the only one that’s laid in bed and wondered about Christian.
SinceMoulin Rouge! is so strongly inspired by both Camille(and its opera adaptation La Traviata) and La Boheme, and both of those stories were semi-autobiographical, then maybe look to those two author’s lives for Christian’s most likely possibilities.
Alexandre Dumas fils (the real “Armand” of Camille/”Alfredo” of Traviata) became a massively successful, prolific novelist and playwright, married twice, had two daughters, and eventually died at 71, a good age for the time period.
Henri Murger (the real “Rodolphe” of Bohéme) wasn’t so lucky – he had great success with Bohéme in both book and play form, but none of his other works matched it, he allegedly had flings with various women but never married, and he floundered in and out of poverty until he got sick and died at just 38.
Let’s hope Christian’s life was more like Dumas fils’s.
