Dumas is credited with revitalizing the historical novel in France, although his abilities as a writer were under dispute from the beginning.
Dumas' works are fast-paced adventure tales that blend history and fiction, but on the other hand, the are entangled, melodramatic, and actually not faithful to the historical facts.
Dumas did not generally define himself as a fl man, and there is not much evidence that he encountered overt racism during his life.
AlexandreDumas (Dumas pEre), 1802–70, French novelist and dramatist, French Literature, Biographies
Alexandre Dumas[AleksAN´dru dUmA´] Pronunciation Key, known as Dumas pEre[per] Pronunciation Key, 1802–70, French novelist and dramatist.
Dumas delighted many generations of readers with his highly romantic novels immortalizing the adventures of the Three Musketeers and the Count of Monte Cristo.
AlexandreDumas, père, born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie (July 24, 1802 – December 5, 1870), is best known for his numerous historical novels of high adventure which have made him the most widely read French author in the world.
Dumas was a quadroon, and suffered because of racism during his lifetime.
AlexandreDumas père wrote stories and historical chronicles of high adventure that captured the imagination of the French public who eagerly waited to purchase the continuing sagas.
Dumas is best known for the historical novels The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo, both written within the space of two years, 1844-45, and which belong to the foundation works of popular culture.
Dumas himself claimed that he only began writing his books when they were already completed in his head.
Dumas lived as adventurously as the heroes of his books, and his way of life created a number of anecdotes.
Dumas fils gained fame with his novel La Dame aux Camélias, in which a fallen girl, the heroine, gives up her lover rather than see him become a social outcast.
Dumas was admitted to the Académie Francaise in 1874.
Dumas was against the emancipation of women, adultery and prostitution, and wrote sharp prefaces to his plays to make their high intentions more obvious.
Dumas is best known for the historical novels The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo, both written within the space of two years, 1844-45, and which belong to the foundation works of popular culture.
Dumas is credited with revitalizing the historical novel in France, although his abilities as a writer were under dispute from the beginning.
DUMAS, ALEXANDRE LEXANDRE DAVY DE LA PAILLETERIE (1802—1870), French novelist and dramatist, was born at Villers-Cotterets (Aisne) on the 24th of July 1802.
Son père Thomas AlexandreDumas, né en 1762 à Saint Domingue, était le fils naturel d'Antoine Alexandre Davy, marquis de la Pailleterie (1710-1786) et d'une esclave noire, Marie-Zézette Dumas, morte en 1772.
Dumas et Adolphe de Leuven écrivent ensemble plusieurs pièces de théâtre.
AlexandreDumas proteste officiellement auprès de la Société des Gens de lettres et porte plainte au tribunal.
AlexandreDumas the elder, known as "Dumas père" (his writer son had the same Christian name), was born in the town of Villers-Cotterets, near Soissons.
Alexandre himself gained a somewhat slight education but managed to forge a career nonetheless due to his reputedly beautiful handwriting, initially in the service and of the Duc d'Orléans.
Dumas is still very popular, his books containing as they do great mystery, heroic actions and adventure.
Dumas avait depuis quelques mois dit pour toujours adieu à la vie administrative et travaillait à plusieurs drames lorsque éclata la révolution de 1830.
Dumas a lui-même raconté comment, après l’insurrection de juin 1832 et une atteinte de choléra, dont il se ressentit d’ailleurs une partie de sa vie, les médecins et ses amis lui conseillèrent de quitter Paris durant quelques mois.
AlexandreDumas, qui se flattait « d’avoir des collaborateurs comme Napoléon a eu des généraux », eut recours encore à Hipp.
Just what Alexandre did in the four years he spent in Naples will never be known thanks to his tendency to exaggerate and romanticize every experience he had.
AlexandreDumas returned to Paris in 1864, where he continued writing.
AlexandreDumas at http://www.cadytech.com/dumas (text is in French and English)
In the same section, Dumas as described by his and our contemporaries displays texts about AlexandreDumas by writers such as Victor Hugo, Honoré de Balzac, Robert-Louis Stevenson or Georges Perec.
Should you wonder about AlexandreDumas fils (son) or Victor Hugo's relationship with Dumas, go to the dictionnary of Dumas' circle of friends.
The Dumas Society has asked the French President to consider transferring AlexandreDumas to the Panthéon in 2002, year of the 200th anniversary of his birth.
On this day in 1825, twenty-three-year-old AlexandreDumas (Sr.) embarked on his self-proclaimed "career as a romantic" by fighting his first duel, and having his pants fall down.
An essay by Dumas on the mystery of the man in the iron mask.
Was he rapt away into this silent seclusion from the luxury of a court, from the intrigues of diplomacy, from the scaffold of a traitor, from the clash of battle?
