Tuberculosis in human culture the disease, which allegedly helped them to see life more clearly and to act decisively. In 1680 John Bunyan referred to it as "the captain of all these men of death". Several major operas have exploited the theme of heroines dying tragically of tuberculosis, including Mimì in Puccini's opera "La bohème". Giuseppe Verdi's "La Traviata" features the consumptive Violetta Valéry, based on Marguerite Gautier in Alexandre Dumas, "fils"'s 1848 novel "La Dame aux Camélias". In Jacques Offenbach's opera "The Tales of Hoffmann", Antonia has tuberculosis and is under the control of a Svengali-like quack doctor who forces her to sing
La Côte-aux-Fées La Côte-aux-Fées La Côte-aux-Fées is a municipality in the district of Val-de-Travers in the canton of Neuchâtel in Switzerland. La Côte-aux-Fées is first mentioned in 1337 as "La Costa des Faies". La Côte-aux-Fées has an area, , of . Of this area, or 55.6% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 41.0% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 3.0% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.1% is either rivers or lakes and or 0.3% is unproductive land. Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 1.9% and transportation infrastructure made up 0.5%. Out of the