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Alexandre Dumas (born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie, 24 July 1802 – 5 December 1870), also known as Alexandre Dumas père, was a French novelist and playwright. His works have been translated into many languages and he is one of the most widely read French authors.
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Apr 2, 2014 · Learn about the life and works of Alexandre Dumas, a celebrated French author best known for his historical adventure novels, such as 'The Three Musketeers' and 'The Count of Monte Cristo'. Find out his early life, writing career, personal life, death and legacy.
Alexandre Dumas, père (born July 24, 1802, Villers-Cotterêts, Aisne, France—died December 5, 1870, Puys, near Dieppe) was one of the most prolific and most popular French authors of the 19th century. Without ever attaining indisputable literary merit, Dumas succeeded in gaining a great reputation first as a dramatist and then as a ...
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Nov 10, 2018 · Learn about the life and works of Alexandre Dumas, the French author of novels such as The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo. Discover his early years, his political and literary career, his personal life, and his legacy.
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Alexandre Dumas, fils (born July 27, 1824, Paris, Fr.—died Nov. 27, 1895, Marly-le-Roi) was a French playwright and novelist, one of the founders of the “problem play”—that is, of the middle-class realistic drama treating some contemporary ill and offering suggestions for its remedy. He was the son ( fils) of the dramatist and novelist ...
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The Count of Monte Cristo (French: Le Comte de Monte-Cristo) is an adventure novel written by French author Alexandre Dumas ( père) completed in 1844. It is one of the author's most popular works, along with The Three Musketeers. Like many of his novels, it was expanded from plot outlines suggested by his collaborating ghostwriter Auguste Maquet.
Alexandre Dumas. Alexandre Dumas, known as Dumas père, (born July 24, 1802, Villers-Cotterêts, Aisne, France—died Dec. 5, 1870, Puys, near Dieppe), French playwright and novelist. Dumas’s first success was as a writer of melodramatic plays, including Napoléon Bonaparte (1831) and Antony (1831). His immensely popular novels, set in ...
