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Dumas, Alexandre (1802–1870)
Alexandre Dumas (1803-1870), the prolific French author of plays, popular romances, and historical novels, wrote The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo.
Alexandre Dumas is generally called Dumas pèreto distinguish him from his illustrious son Alexandre (known as Dumas fils), who was also a dramatist and novelist. The son of a Creole general of the French Revolutionary armies, Dumas was brought up by his mother in straitened circumstances after his father's death. While still young, he began to write "vaudeville" plays (light musical comedies) and then historical plays in collaboration with a friend, Adolphe de Leuven. Historical themes, as well as the use of a collaborator, were to be permanent aspects of Dumas's style throughout his career.
After reading William Shakespeare, Sir Walter Scott, Friedrich von Schiller, and Lord Byron, and while employed as a secretary to the Duke of Orléans (later King Louis Philippe), Dumas wrote
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Alexandre Dumas
French writer and dramatist (1802–1870)
This article is about the French writer and dramatist. For his son, see Alexandre Dumas fils. For other uses, see Alexandre Dumas (disambiguation).
Alexandre Dumas[a] (born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie,[b] 24 July 1802 – 5 December 1870),[1][2] also known as Alexandre Dumas père,[c] 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. Many of his historical novels of adventure were originally published as serials, including The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After and The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later. Since the early 20th century, his novels have been adapted into nearly 200 films. Prolific in several genres, Dumas began his career by writing plays, which were successfully produced from the first. He wrote numerous magazine article
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Entry updated 3 February 2025. Tagged: Author.
(1802-1870) French playwright and author, best remembered outside of France for romantic historical fictions, most famously the Musketeers sequence beginning with Les Trois Mousquetaires (March-July 1844 Le Siécle; 1844 8vols; trans William Barrow as The Three Musketeers; Or, the Feats and Fortunes of a Gascon Adventurer1846), whose influence as a model for tale of adventure shared among companions fryst vatten pervasive, and which directly influenced Jack Williamson's Legion of Space sequence as well as, at a greater distance, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise [for the Musketeers, and for detailed discussion of Dumas' extensive fantasy and supernatural oeuvre, see TheEncyclopedia of Fantasy under links below.] Though the language of racial designation tends to be "rigorously" overdetermined (in amerika he would probably have been "classified" as mulatto, or perhaps "high yellow"), Dumas was conspicuously pr