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  Alexandre Dumas, fils - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Alexandre Dumas, fils (July 27, 1824 – November 27, 1895) was the son of Alexandre Dumas, père, who followed in his father's footsteps becoming a celebrated author and playwright.
Alexandre Dumas fils was born in Paris, France, the illegitimate child of Marie-Catherine Labay, a dressmaker, and novelist Alexandre Dumas.
Alexandre Dumas fils died at Marly-le-Roi, Yvelines, on November 27, 1895 and was interred in the Cimetière de Montmartre in Paris.
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 Alexandre Dumas, père - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Alexandre Dumas, père, born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie (July 24, 1802 – December 5, 1870) was a French writer, best known for his numerous historical novels of high adventure which have made him the most widely read French author in the world.
Alexandre Dumas 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 made extensive use of the aid of numerous ghostwriters of which Auguste Maquet was the best known.
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 Alexander Dumas (Fils) (1824-1895)
LEXANDER DUMAS, the Younger, ranks as one of the three leading French dramatists of the last quarter of the 19th century.
The torment of his school days when he was constantly taunted with his illegitimacy succeeded to a Bohemian comradeship with the father, who had publicly acknowledged his son as soon as his own literary reputation was sufficiently established to bring in a dependable income.
This life eventually landed Dumas, fils, in debt to the tune of 50,000 francs.
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 Alexandre Dumas
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 did not generally define himself as a fl man, and there is not much evidence that he encountered overt racism during his life.
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 ALEXANDRE DUMAS - LoveToKnow Article on ALEXANDRE DUMAS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
Thomas Alexandre Dumas was still a private at the outbreak of the revolution, but he rose rapidly and became general of division in 1793.
Alexandre received the rudiments of education from a priest, and entered the office of a local solicitor.
Dumas acknowledged his son in 1831, and obtained the custody of him after a lawsuit with the mother.
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 Alexandre Dumas - Biography and Works
Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870) was one of the most famous French writers of the 19th century.
Dumas is best known for historical adventure novels like 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' 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.
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 Alexandre Dumas fils
French dramatist and novelist, born in Paris on the 27th of July 1824, the natural son of Alexandre Dumas père and the dressmaker Marie Labay.
To a son of Dumas the use of the pen came naturally.
"Alexandre loves preaching overmuch", wrote his father; and in most of his plays he assumes the attitude of a rigid and uncompromising moralist commissioned to impart to a heedless world lessons of deep import.
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 Alexandre Dumas(jr.)
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.
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 Personnages qui sont associées à Alexandre Dumas père   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
Dumas wrote two stories which concern the Duchesse de Berri (Berry) and her abortive attempt to install her son, the grandson of Charles X, as king of France in 1832.
In his Mémoires, Dumas says she was promoted from the position of slave to wife and managed the estate in Jérémie, San Domingo (now in Haiti) until her death in 1772.
Dumas credits Nodier for the story of Femme au collier de velours and the whole of the first chapter is a reminiscence of Nodier's life.
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 Alexandre Dumas Source 3 -- Biography at LiteratureClassics.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
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.
His father, the French General, Thomas Alexandre Dumas (1762—1806)— also known as Alexandre Davy de la Pailleterie—was born in Saint Domingo, the natural son of Antoine Alexandre Davy, marquis de la Pailleterie, by a negress, Marie Cessette Dumas, who died in 1772.
Dumas was never an actual candidate for academic honours, but he had more than once taken steps to investigate his chances of success.
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 Dumas, Alexandre on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
DUMAS, ALEXANDRE [Dumas, Alexandre] known as Dumas fils, 1824-95, French dramatist and novelist, illegitimate son of Dumas Père.
Alexandre Dumas' remains exhumed ahead of his entry into France's Pantheon
Dumas, the prodigious: a profile of Alexandre Dumas.
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 Biography of Alexandre Dumas fils - French Dramatist
27, 1895, was the illegitimate son of Alexandre Dumas père.
His father's tastes and abilities favored the historical novel and the adventure tale, but Dumas fils preferred to write of contemporary society.
Although vestiges of romanticism can be noted in his works, Dumas fils attempted to analyze the social ills of his times.
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Dumas studied at the Institution Goubaux and the College Bourbon, but left the school to devote to writing.
In 1867 Dumas published his autobiographical novel, "L'affaire Clemenceau," which is considered one of his best works.
Dumas was admitted to the Academie Francaise in 1874.
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 Dumas fils, Alexandre   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
Alexandre Dumas fils was Dumas' son and a famous author in his own right.
"Alexandre Dumas," from The Galaxy, 1875, tells of father and sone relationship
Alexandre Dumas fils, author of La Dame aux Camélias (Camille)
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 ReadLiterature.Com - Alexandre Dumas Fils La Dame aux Camelias
In 1844 she met Alexandre Dumas the younger, who was later to write of their affair in the 1848 novel "Camille" and in the 1852 play which established his success in the theater.
Dumas continued his affair with her for about a year, being careful not to be detected by Stackelberg, because at the age of twenty he could not dream of supporting the Duplessis household.
The introduction, the chronology of Dumas Fils and the explanatory notes are full of information on lives of Dumas Fils and Marie Duplessis (née Alphonsine Plessis) who are the real life counterparts of Armand Duval and Marguerite, respectively.
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 Dumas, Alexandre (fils) (1824-1895)
His father formally recognized him in 1831 and he was taken away from his mother (who tried to run away with him).
Dumas became friends with the writer Jules Vernes and introduced the latter to his future publisher Hetzel.
The grave of Alexandre Dumas fils at Montmartre Cimetière, Paris.
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 Carducci + Dumas fils + Campbell
It was also on this date, July 27, 1834, that French novelist and playwright Alexandre Dumas fils, illegitimate son of Alexandre Dumas père — of Three Musketeers and Count of Monte Cristo fame — was born in Paris.
Dumas fils left school to pursue literature and it almost eluded him: he sank so deeply into debt that only his outstanding novel, La Dame aux Camélias, saved him.
Partly because of his separated parents, and perhaps because his own life was less than strict, Dumas was a severe moralist in his plays and novels.
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 Dumas fils on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
DUMAS FILS [Dumas fils] see Dumas, Alexandre (1824-95).
Dumas' swashbuckling tales fall off reading lists but remain a filmmakers favorite
Ashes of famed novelist Dumas to be moved, against his wishes
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 AllRefer.com - Alexandre Dumas (Dumas fils), 1824–95, French dramatist and novelist (French Literature, Biography) ...
Alexandre Dumas (Dumas fils), 1824–95, French dramatist and novelist, French Literature, Biographies
Alexandre Dumas known as Dumas fils[AleksAN´dru dUmA´, fEs] Pronunciation Key, 1824–95, French dramatist and novelist, illegitimate son of Dumas PEre.
1915), Le Fils naturel [the natural son] (1858), Les IdEes de Mme Aubray (1867), L'EtrangEre [the strange woman] (1876), and Denise (1885).
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Alexandre Dumas Jr by Meissonier canvas repro frame
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 Alexandre Dumas > Summary
In the same section, Dumas as described by his and our contemporaries displays texts about Alexandre Dumas by writers such as Victor Hugo, Honoré de Balzac, Robert-Louis Stevenson or Georges Perec.
Should you wonder about Alexandre Dumas 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 Alexandre Dumas to the Panthéon in 2002, year of the 200th anniversary of his birth.
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 Alexandre Dumas (sr.)
Then only D'Artagnan remembered the languishing glances of Kitty, her constantly meeting him in the antechamber, the corridor, or on the stairs, those touches of the hand every time she met him, and her deep sighs; but absorbed by his desire to please the great lady, he had disdained the soubrette.
Dumas' heroes die romantically in different battles - Porthos is killed by king's men, d'Artagnan is killed in Holland by a stray bullet.
Returning from Elba, Dumas spotted another island, the deserted Monte-Carlo, about which he determined to write a novel in remembrance of the trip.
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 ALEXANDRE DUMAS (FILS) - AUTOGRAPH NOTE SIGNED
The son of the author of The Count of Monte-Cristo and The Three Musketeers.
Dumas fils", 1½p, 4½x3½ card, front and verso.
The illegitimate son of the French writer, Dumas fils wrote novels and plays.
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July 1824, the natural son of Alexandre Dumas (see above) and the dressmaker See also:
The lessons them-selves are mostly concerned with the " eternal feminine," by which Dumas was haunted, and differ in ethical value.
As a moralist Dumas fits took himself very seriously indeed.
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 ALEXANDRE DUMAS, FILS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
The younger Alexandre Dumas, natural son of Alexandre Dumas, pere, and Catherine Lebay, was born in Paris in 1824 and died at Marly-le-Roy in 1895.
While he wrote some novels, his best work was as a playwright.
His novel, "La dame aux camelias" or the dramatized version of it, is perhaps the only one of his works known to most of the people in this country who know anything at all about him.
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 Dumas fils
Alexandre Dumas (Dumas fils), 1824–95, French dramatist and novelist - Dumas, Alexandre, known as Dumas fils, 1824–95, French dramatist and novelist, illegitimate...
Alexandre Dumas - Writer, born 24 July 1802, The author of "The Three Musketeers"
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 Amazon.com: Camille : The Lady of the Camellias (Signet Classic): Books: fils, Alexandre Dumas,Edmund Gosse   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
by fils, Alexandre Dumas, Edmund Gosse (Translator) "IN my opinion, it is impossible to create characters until one has spent a long time studying men, as it is impossible to speak a..." (more)
Before Verdi's Violetta and Dumas young's Marguerite, there lived briefly and died a mislead soul of such unusual qualities, she was destined to cast a tall artistic shadow.
The young Dumas, while growing, somewhat dissolute, was one of the many lovers of the fascinating courtesan who was Paris' arbiter of elegance, perennial in the gazettes, carrying camellias, always.
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 The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre: Dumas, Alexandre, fils @ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre: Dumas, Alexandre, fils @ HighBeam Research
Dumas, Alexandre, fils (1824–95), French dramatist, natural son of the above, who approached the theatre by way of a dramatization of his own novel La Dame aux camélias (1848).
First acted in 1852, this became one of the outstanding theatrical successes of the second half of the 19th century, and is still occasionally revived.
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Alexandre Dumas (Dumas fils), 1824–95, French dramatist and novelist
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