Definition von alexandre dumas im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch
{i} (1802-1870) French novelist, author of "The Three Musketeers"; Alexandre Dumas (1824-1895), author and playwright, son of Alexandre Dumas
a French writer of novels and plays. He wrote The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers (1802-70). known as Dumas père born July 24, 1802, Villers-Cotterêts, 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 Napoléon 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 camélias (1848), the basis of Giuseppe Verdi's opera La Traviata and later of several films titled Camille