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Much of the libretto is original.
The main plots of acts two and three are the librettists ' invention, with only a few passing references to incidents and characters in Murger.
Most of acts one and four follow the novel, piecing together episodes from various chapters.
The final scenes in acts one and four — the scenes with Rodolfo and Mimì — resemble both the play and the novel.
The story of their meeting closely follows chapter 18 of the novel, in which the two lovers living in the garret are not Rodolphe and Mimì at all, but rather Jacques and Francine.
The story of Mimì's death in the opera draws from two different chapters in the novel, one relating Francine's death and the other relating Mimì's.
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