Alexandre Dumas

Alexandre Dumas was born in 1802 in Villers-Cotterêts, France. His father, Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, was a general in the French Revolutionary army, the son of a French nobleman and an enslaved woman in Saint-Domingue (now Haiti); he died when Alexandre was a small child. Dumas went to Paris as a young man, worked as a clerk for the future King Louis-Philippe, and made his name with historical plays such as Henri III and His Court (1829). He then turned to adventure novels, often written with collaborators, especially Auguste Maquet, and published in newspapers as serials. The Three Musketeers (1844) and The Count of Monte Cristo (1844–1846) were enormously popular, and the musketeers' adventures continued in Twenty Years After and The Vicomte de Bragelonne, which includes the story of the Man in the Iron Mask. Dumas earned and spent large sums, built a château near Paris, and traveled widely. He died in 1870; his son, also named Alexandre Dumas, was a playwright.

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