alexandre dumas

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Definition of alexandre dumas in English English dictionary: {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

alexandre dumas