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Dumas, Alexandre (sh)




known as Dumas pere

born July 24, 1802, Villers-Cotterets, 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 Napoleon Bonaparte (1831) and Antony (1831). His immensely popular novels, set in colourful historical backgrounds, include The Three Musketeers (1844), a romance about four swashbuckling heroes in the age of Cardinal Richelieu, and its sequel Twenty Years After (1845); The Count of Monte Cristo (1844-45); and The Black Tulip (1850). His illegitimate son Alexandre Dumas (1824-95), called Dumas fils, is best known for his play La Dame aux camelias (1848), the basis of Giuseppe Verdi's opera La Traviata and later of several films titled Camille.