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| | Alexandre Dumas, père - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | 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. | | | Because of their same name and occupation, to distinguish them, one is referred to as Alexandre Dumas père, (French for father) the other as Alexandre Dumas, fils (French for son). | | | Although Marie-Louise was unable to provide her son with much in the way of education, it did not hinder young Alexandre's love of books, and he read everything he could get his hands on. |
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| | Alexandre Dumas - Free Online Library |
| | Alexandre accepted a clerking position for the Duke of Orléans in Paris, where he worked as a clerk. | | | Few people know that Alexandre was a grandson of a Haitian slave who was also the illegitimate son of Marie Louise-Elizabeth Labouret and Thomas-Alexandre Davy de la Pailleterie, a general in Napoleon's army. | | | In this tale, France is on the brink of Civil War, and the Three Musketeers must come out of retirement to once again save the day. |
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| | Alexandre Dumas(jr.) |
| | She inspired later Dumas' mother characters, and he often depicted the fate of unmarried women in a tragic light. | | | Rose took another name, Marie Duplessis, but in Dumas' novel she was Marguerite Gautier and in Verdi's opera Violetta Valéry. | | | Playwrights have shown human beings as they are, but they should show how they ought to be. |
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| | Alexandre Dumas at LiteratureClassics.com -- essays, resources |
| | 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' adventure novels explore man's relationship with god and with each other. | | | He was among the first, along with Honoré de Balzac and Eugène Sue, who fully used the possibilities of roman feuilleton, the serial novel. |
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| | Dumas, Alexandre on Encyclopedia.com |
| | (älĕksäN´dre dümä´, fēs) known as Dumas fils, 1824-95, French dramatist and novelist, illegitimate son of Dumas Père. | | | Remains of French author Alexandre Dumas moved to site of honor in Paris. | | | In later plays Dumas preached a revolt against romantic morality, the excesses of the wealthy, and bourgeois puritanism and propounded social and psychological questions. |
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