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Dumas fils ( French for "son") was the son of Alexandre Dumas père ("father"), also a well-known playwright and author of classic works such as The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo. Dumas fils was admitted to the Académie française (French Academy) in 1874 and awarded the Légion d'honneur (Legion of Honour) in 1894.
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 ...
T he French author Alexandre Dumas, known as Dumas fils, b. July 27, 1824, d. Nov. 27, 1895, was the illegitimate son of Alexandre Dumas père. Like his illustrious father, he wrote novels and plays, establishing the genre known as the problem, or thesis, play. His output was copious, but it far from equalled the avalanche of works produced by ...
Written by Alexandre Dumas fils (1824–1895) when he was 23 years old, and first published in 1848, La Dame aux Camélias is a semi-autobiographical novel based on the author's brief love affair with a courtesan, Marie Duplessis. Set in mid-19th-century France, the novel tells the tragic love story between fictional characters Marguerite ...
Alexandre Dumas dit Alexandre Dumas fils, né le 27 juillet 1824 à Paris et mort le 27 novembre 1895 à Marly-le-Roi, est un romancier et dramaturge français. Il fut comme son père un auteur à succès. Il est connu principalement pour son roman La Dame aux camélias, ainsi que pour deux pièces de théâtre, Le Fils naturel et Un père ...
son Alexandre Dumas, fils. 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 ...
Camille, fictional character, the protagonist of La Dame aux camélias (1848; staged 1852) by Alexandre Dumas fils. Camille made her way in life as a courtesan, and her byname referred to the camellias she carried as a signal of her availability. Camille gives up her way of life after falling in love with a young man but selflessly returns to ...
