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May 8, 2024 · Thomas-Alexandre Dumas (born March 25, 1762, Saint-Domingue [now Haiti]—died February 26, 1806, Villers-Cotterêts, France) was a French general during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. Dumas’s mother, Marie-Cessette Dumas, was a Black enslaved woman.
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May 15, 2024 · The Count of Monte Cristo, Romantic novel by French author Alexandre Dumas pere, published serially in 1844–46 and in book form in 1844–45. The work, which is set during the time of the Bourbon Restoration in France, tells the story of an unjustly incarcerated man who escapes to find revenge.
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2 days ago · Sarah Bernhardt (French: [saʁa bɛʁnɑʁt]; born Henriette-Rosine Bernard; 22 October 1844 – 26 March 1923) was a French stage actress who starred in some of the most popular French plays of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including La Dame aux Camélias by Alexandre Dumas fils, Ruy Blas by Victor Hugo, Fédora and La Tosca by Victorien Sardou, and L'Aiglon by Edmond Rostand.
May 1, 2024 · Verdi’s La traviata is based on the semi-autobiographical play, La Dame aux camélias ( The Lady of the Camellias ), by Alexandre Dumas fils. The subject is Dumas’s relationship with Marie Duplessis, someone that composer Franz Liszt once described as the only woman he had ever loved.
5 days ago · There have been countless film and tv productions adapting Alexandre Dumas’ classic 19th Century tale of revenge and deception, The Count Of Monte-Cristo. We have seen it in different versions ...
6 days ago · Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle), writer. Jean Foucault, scientist whose pendulum is installed in the Pantheon. Adolphe Sax, inventor of the Saxophone. Edgar Degas, painter. Alexandre Dumas,...
May 18, 2024 · Cette dernière, dame charitable, accepte de loger l’écrivain dans la chambre de son fils, Louis, un jeune avocat qui vit à Paris. A cette occasion, Alexandre Dumas fait la connaissance de Lucien, le frère jumeau de Louis. Siamois à la naissance, les frères ont été séparés à la naissance à l’aide d’un scalpel.
