biography
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Dumas, Alexandre
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known as Dumas père (‘father’)
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pronunciation:
[dümah]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1802–70)
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| biography:
| Novelist and playwright, born in Villers-Cotterêts, NE France. He moved to Paris in 1823, where he obtained a clerkship, and began to write. At 27 he became famous with his play Henri III (1829). After several other plays, some in collaboration, he turned to travelogues and historical novels. He gained enduring success as a storyteller, his purpose being to put the history of France into novels. Among his best-known works are Le Comte de Monte Cristo (1844–5, The Count of Monte Cristo), Les Trois Mousquetaires (1845, The Three Musketeers), and La Tulipe noire (1850, The Black Tulip). He spent two years in exile in Brussels (1855–7), and helped Garibaldi in Italy (1860–4). |
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