Camille (given name)


Camille is a Latin-French unisex name.

History

The form Camille was later associated with the heroine of Dumas' The Lady of the Camellias, which served as the basis for Verdi's opera La Traviata and several films. In Dumas' novel, Camille is not the given name of the heroine; this name was applied to her in derived works in the English-speaking world, presumably because of the similarity in sound to the floral name Camellia.
The name Camille was given to the heroine as early as in a silent film of 1915, but it became widely known with Greta Garbo's Camille of 1936.

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Fictional characters