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Alexandre DumasThis article is about the writer. For his son, see Alexandre Dumas, fils. For other uses, see Alexandre Dumas(disambiguation).

Alexandre Dumas

Dumas in 1855.

Born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie24 July 1802Villers-Cotterts, Aisne, France

Died 5 December 1870 (aged68)Puys (near Dieppe), Seine-Maritime, France

Occupation playwright and novelist

Nationality French

Period 18291869

Literary movement Romanticism and Historical fiction

Notable work(s) The Count of Monte CristoThe Three Musketeers

Relative(s) Thomas-Alexandre Dumas (father) Alexandre Dumas, fils (son)

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Alexandre Dumas (French:[a.lk.sd dy.ma], born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie, [dy.ma da.vi d la pa.j.ti]; 24July 1802 5 December 1870),[2] also known as Alexandre Dumas, pre, was a French writer. His works have beentranslated into nearly 100 languages, and he is one of the most widely read French authors. Many of his historicalnovels of high adventure, including The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After, and TheVicomte de Bragelonne: Ten Years Later were originally published as serials. His novels have been adapted since theearly twentieth century for nearly 200 films. Dumas' last novel, The Knight of Sainte-Hermine, unfinished at hisdeath, was completed by a scholar and published in 2005, becoming a bestseller. It was published in English in 2008as The Last Cavalier.Prolific in several genres, Dumas began his career by writing plays, which were successfully produced from the first.He also wrote numerous magazine articles and travel books; his published works totaled 100,000 pages. In the1840s, Dumas founded the Thtre Historique in Paris.Dumas' father (general Thomas-Alexandre Davy de la Pailleterie) was born in Saint-Domingue (present-day Haiti) toa French nobleman and an enslaved African woman. His father's aristocratic rank helped young Alexandre acquirework with Louis-Philippe, Duke of Orlans.In the election of Louis-Napolon Bonaparte in 1851, Dumas fell from favor, and left France for Belgium, where hestayed for several years. Upon leaving Belgium, Dumas moved to Russia for a few years, before going to Italy. In1861 he founded and published the newspaper, L' Indipendente, which supported the Italian unification effort. In1864 he returned to Paris.

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Though married, in the tradition of Frenchmen of higher social class, Dumas also had numerous affairs (allegedly asmany as forty). He was known to have at least four illegitimate or "natural" children, including a boy namedAlexandre Dumas after him. This son became a successful novelist and playwright, and was known as AlexandreDumas, fils (son), while the elder Dumas became conventionally known in French as Alexandre Dumas, pre(father). Among his affairs, in 1866 Dumas had one with Adah Isaacs Menken, an American actress then at theheight of her career and less than half his age. Twentieth-century scholars have found that Dumas fathered anotherthree "natural" children.The English playwright Watts Phillips, who knew Dumas in his later life, described him as, "the most generous,large-hearted being in the world. He also was the most delightfully amusing and egotistical creature on the face ofthe earth. His tongue was like a windmill once set in motion, you never knew when he would stop, especially if thetheme was himself."[3]

Early life

General Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, father ofAlexandre Dumas.

Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie (later known as Alexandre Dumas)was born in Villers-Cotterts in the department of Aisne, inPicardy, France. He had an older sister, Marie-Alexandrine (b.before 1798).[4] Their parents were Marie-Louise lisabethLabouret, the daughter of an innkeeper, and Thomas-AlexandreDumas. Thomas-Alexandre had been born in the French colony ofSaint-Domingue (now Haiti), the mixed-race son of the marquisAlexandre-Antoine Davy de la Pailleterie, a French nobleman andgnral commissaire in the artillery of the colony, andMarie-Cessette Dumas, a slave who was of Afro-Caribbeanancestry. It is not known whether she was born in Saint-Domingueor in Africa (although the fact that she had a French surnameprobably means that she was Creole), nor is it known from which

African people her ancestors came.[5][6] Brought back to France by his father, Thomas-Alexandre was educated in amilitary school and joined the army as a young man. Thomas-Alexandre used his mother's name, Dumas, after abreak with his father. Thomas-Alexandre was promoted to general by the age of 31, the first of Afro-Antilles originto reach that rank in the French army.[7] He served with distinction in the French Revolutionary Wars. Although ageneral under Bonaparte in the Italian and Egyptian campaigns, Thomas-Alexandre had fallen out of favor by 1800and requested leave to return to France. On his return, his ship had to put in at Taranto, in the Kingdom of Naples,where he and others were held as prisoners of war. During his two-year imprisonment, his health was ruined. At thetime of Alexandre's birth, his father was impoverished.

The father died of cancer in 1806 when Alexandre was four. His widowed mother could not provide her son withmuch of an education, and had to reject an offer from the elite Mao school because they could not afford the fees.Undaunted, Dumas read everything he could and taught himself Spanish. His mother's stories of his father's braveryduring the campaigns of the Revolutionary Wars inspired the boy's vivid imagination. Although poor, the family hadtheir father's distinguished reputation and aristocratic rank. In 1822, after the restoration of the monarchy, the20-year-old Alexandre moved to Paris. He acquired a position at the Palais Royal in the office of Louis-Philippe,Duke of Orlans.

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Career

Alexandre Dumas by Achille Devria (1829).

While working for Louis-Philippe, Dumas began writing articles formagazines and plays for the theatre. As an adult, he used his slavegrandmother's surname of Dumas, as his father had as an adult. Hisfirst play, Henry III and His Courts, produced in 1829 when he was 27years old, met with acclaim. The next year his second play Christinewas equally popular. These successes gave him sufficient income towrite full-time.

In 1830 Dumas participated in the Revolution that ousted Charles Xand replaced him on the throne with the Duke of Orlans. Dumas'former employer, he ruled as Louis-Philippe, the Citizen King. Untilthe mid-1830s, life in France remained unsettled, with sporadic riots bydisgruntled Republicans and impoverished urban workers seekingchange. As life slowly returned to normal, the nation began toindustrialize. An improving economycombined with the end of presscensorshipmade the times rewarding for Alexandre Dumas' literaryskills.

After writing additional successful plays, Dumas switched to writing novels. Although attracted to an extravagantlifestyle and always spending more than he earned, Dumas proved to be an astute marketer. As newspapers werepublishing many serial novels, in 1838 Dumas rewrote one of his plays as his first serial novel, Le Capitaine Paul.He founded a production studio, staffed with writers who turned out hundreds of stories, all subject to his personaldirection, editing and additions.

From 1839 to 1841, Dumas, with the assistance of several friends, compiled Celebrated Crimes, an eight-volumecollection of essays on famous criminals and crimes from European history. He featured Beatrice Cenci, MartinGuerre, Cesare and Lucrezia Borgia, as well as more recent events and criminals, including the cases of the allegedmurderers Karl Ludwig Sand and Antoine Franois Desrues, who were executed.Dumas collaborated with Augustin Grisier, his fencing master, in his 1840 novel, The Fencing Master. The story iswritten as Grisier's account of how he came to witness the events of the Decembrist revolt in Russia. The novel waseventually banned in Russia by Czar Nicholas I, and Dumas was prohibited from visiting the country until after theCzar's death. Dumas refers to Grisier with great respect in The Count of Monte Cristo, The Corsican Brothers, and inhis memoirs.Dumas depended on numerous assistants and collaborators, of whom Auguste Maquet was the best known. It wasnot until the late twentieth century that his role was fully understood. Maquet is known to have outlined the plot ofThe Count of Monte Cristo, and made substantial contributions to The Three Musketeers and its sequels, as well as toseveral of Dumas' other novels. Their method of working together was for Maquet to propose plots and write drafts.Dumas added the details, dialogues, and the final chapters. Maquet took Dumas to court to try to get authorialrecognition and a higher rate of payment for his work. He was successful in getting more money, but not a byline.[8]

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Chteau de Monte-Cristo.

Dumas' novels were so popular that they were soon translated intoEnglish and other languages. His writing earned him a great deal ofmoney, but he was frequently insolvent, as he spent lavishly on womenand sumptuous living. (He has been found to have had a total of 40mistresses.) In 1846 he had built a country house outside Paris at LePort-Marly, the large Chteau de Monte-Cristo, with an additionalbuilding for his writing studio. It was often filled with strangers andacquaintances who stayed for lengthy visits and took advantage of hisgenerosity. Two years later, faced with financial difficulties, he soldthe entire property.

Dumas wrote in a wide variety of genres and published a total of100,000 pages in his lifetime. He made use of experience, writingtravel books after taking journeys, including those motivated byreasons other than pleasure. After King Louis-Philippe was ousted in arevolt, Louis-Napolon Bonaparte was elected as president. AsBonaparte disapproved of the author, in 1851 Dumas fled to Brussels,Belgium, which was also an effort to escape his creditors. He movedon to Russia about 1859, where French was the second language of the elite, and his writings were enormouslypopular. Dumas spent two years in Russia, before leaving to seek different adventure. He published travel booksabout Russia.

In March 1861 the kingdom of Italy was proclaimed, with Victor Emmanuel II as its king. Dumas traveled there and,for the next three years, participated in the movement for Italian unification. He founded and led a newspaper,Indipendente. Returning to Paris in 1864, he published travel books about Italy.Despite Dumas' aristocratic background and personal success, the writer had to deal with discrimination related tohis mixed-race ancestry. In 1843 he wrote a short novel, Georges, that addressed some of the issues of race and theeffects of colonialism. His response to a man who insulted him about his African ancestry has become famous.Dumas said:

My father was a mulatto, my grandfather was a Negro, and my great-grandfather a monkey. You see,Sir, my family starts where yours ends.

Personal lifeOn 1 February 1840, Dumas married the actress Ida Ferrier (born Marguerite-Josphine Ferrand) (18111859).[9] Hehad numerous liaisons with other women and was known to have fathered at least four children by them: Alexandre Dumas, fils (18241895), son of Marie-Laure-Catherine Labay (17941868), a dressmaker. He

became a successful novelist and playwright. Marie-Alexandrine Dumas (5 March 1831 1878), the daughter of Belle Krelsamer (18031875). Micalla-Cllie-Josepha-lisabeth Cordier (born 1860), the daughter of Emlie Cordier. Henry Bauer, the son of a woman whose surname was Bauer.About 1866, Dumas had an affair with Adah Isaacs Menken, a well-known American actress. She had performed hersensational role in Mazeppa in London. In Paris she had a sold-out run of Les Pirates de la Savanne and was at thepeak of her success.[10]

These women were among Dumas' nearly 40 mistresses found by the scholar Claude Schopp, in addition to threemore children. He has been researching Dumas for decades, primarily his writings.

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Death and legacy

Dumas later in his career.

At his death in December 1870, Dumas was originally buried at hisbirthplace of Villers-Cotterts in the department of Aisne. His deathwas overshadowed by the Franco-Prussian War and later, changingfashions decreased his popularity. In the late twentieth century,scholars such as Reginald Hamel and Claude Schopp have caused acritical reappraisal and new appreciation of his art, as well as findinglost works. These contributed to the ceremony in 2002 to reinterDumas in the Panthon de Paris, an honor reserved for the great inFrench culture.

In 1970, the Alexandre Dumas Paris Mtro station was named in hishonour. His country home outside Paris, the Chteau de Monte-Cristo,has been restored and is open to the public as a museum.[citation needed]

Researchers have continued to find Dumas works in archives,including the five-act play, The Gold Thieves, found in 2002 by thescholar Reginald Hamel in the Bibliothque Nationale de France. It

was published in France in 2004 by Honor-Champion.[]

In 2002 for the bicentennial of Dumas' birth, the French President, Jacques Chirac, had a ceremony honoring theauthor by having his ashes reinterred at the mausoleum of the Panthon of Paris, where many French luminarieswere buried. The proceedings were televised: the new coffin was draped in a blue velvet cloth and carried on acaisson flanked by four mounted Republican Guards costumed as the four Musketeers. It was transported throughParis to the Panthon. In his speech, President Chirac said:

"With you, we were D'Artagnan, Monte Cristo, or Balsamo, riding along the roads of France, touringbattlefields, visiting palaces and castleswith you, we dream."

Chirac acknowledged the racism that had existed in France and said that the reinterment in the Pantheon had been away of correcting that wrong, as Alexandre Dumas was enshrined alongside fellow great authors Victor Hugo andmile Zola. Chirac noted that, although France has produced many great writers, none has been so widely read asDumas. His novels have been translated into nearly 100 languages. In addition, they have inspired more than 200motion pictures.

Tomb of Alexandre Dumas at the Panthon inParis.

In 2005, Dumas' last novel, The Knight of Sainte-Hermine, waspublished in France in June of that year. Featuring the Battle ofTrafalgar, Dumas described a fictional character killing Lord Nelson.(In fact, he was killed by an unknown sniper.) Writing and publishingthe novel serially in 1869, Dumas had nearly finished it before hisdeath. It was the third part of the Sainte-Hermine trilogy. ClaudeSchopp, a Dumas scholar, noticed a letter in an archive in 1990 that ledhim to discover the unfinished work. It took him years to research it,edit the completed portions, and decide how to treat the unfinishedpart. Schopp finally wrote the final two-and-a half chapters, based onthe author's notes, to complete the story. Published by Editions Phbus,it sold 60,000 copies, making it a bestseller. Translated into English, itwas released in 2006 as The Last Cavalier, and has been translated into other languages.

Schopp has since found additional material related to the Saints-Hermine saga. Schopp combined them to publish thesequel Le Salut de l'Empire in 2008.

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Works

FictionAlexandre Dumas wrote numerous stories and historical chronicles of high adventure. They included the following: Othon larcher Captain Pamphile (Le Capitaine Pamphile, 1839) The Fencing Master (Le Matre d'armes, 1840) Castle Eppstein; The Specter Mother (Chateau d'Eppstein; Albine, 1843) Georges (1843): The protagonist of this novel is a man of mixed race, a rare allusion to Dumas' own African

ancestry. The Conspirators (Le chevalier d'Harmental, 1843) later adapted by Paul Ferrier into an opera Ascanio (1843?); Written in collaboration with Paul Meurice (18201905): France History Francis I,

15151547 Fiction. Louis XIV and His Century (Louis XIV et son sicle, 1844) The Nutcracker (Histoire d'un casse-noisette, 1844): a revision of Hoffmann's story The Nutcracker and the

Mouse King, later set by composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky to music for a ballet the D'Artagnan Romances:

The Three Musketeers (Les Trois Mousquetaires, 1844) Twenty Years After (Vingt ans aprs, 1845) The Vicomte de Bragelonne, sometimes called "Ten Years Later", (Le Vicomte de Bragelonne, ou Dix ans plus

tard, 1847): When published in English, it was usually split into three parts: The Vicomte de Bragelonne,Louise de la Valliere, and The Man in the Iron Mask, of which the last part is the best known. (A third sequel,The Son of Porthos, 1883 (a.k.a. The Death of Aramis) was published under the name of Alexandre Dumas;however, the real author was Paul Mahalin.)

The Corsican Brothers (Les Frres Corses, 1844) The Count of Monte Cristo (Le Comte de Monte-Cristo, 18451846) The Regent's Daughter (Une Fille du rgent, 1845) The Two Dianas (Les Deux Diane, 1846) the Valois romances:

The horoscope : a romance of the reign of Franois II (1897?) La Reine Margot (1845) La Dame de Monsoreau (1846) (a.k.a. Chicot the Jester) The Forty-Five Guardsmen (1847) (Les Quarante-cinq)

the Marie Antoinette romances: Joseph Balsamo (Mmoires d'un mdecin: Joseph Balsamo, 18461848) (a.k.a. Memoirs of a Physician,

Cagliostro, Madame Dubarry, The Countess Dubarry, or The Elixir of Life)(Joseph Balsamo is about 1000pages long, and is usually published in two volumes in English translations: Vol 1. Joseph Balsamo and Vol 2.Memoirs of a Physician.)

The Queen's Necklace (Le Collier de la Reine, 18491850) Ange Pitou (1853) (a.k.a. Storming the Bastille or Six Years Later) The Countess de Charny (La Comtesse de Charny, 18531855) (a.k.a. Andre de Taverney, or The Mesmerist's

Victim) Le Chevalier de Maison-Rouge (1845) (a.k.a. The Knight of the Red House, or The Knight of Maison-Rouge)

The Black Tulip (La Tulipe noire, 1850) The New Troy (Montevideo, ou une nouvelle Troie, 1850), inspired by the Great Siege of Montevideo Olympe de Cleves (Olympe de Cleves, 1851-2)

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The Page of the Duke of Savoy (Catherine Blum, 1853-4) The Mohicans of Paris (Les Mohicans de Paris, 1854) The Wolf-Leader (Le Meneur de loups, 1857) the Sainte-Hermine trilogy:

The Companions of Jehu (Les Compagnons de Jehu, 1857) The Whites and the Blues (Les Blancs et les Bleus, 1867) The Knight of Sainte-Hermine (Le Chevalier de Sainte-Hermine, 1869): This nearly completed novel was his

last major work; it was being published serially. It was lost until a rediscovery in 1990 by the Dumas scholarClaude Schopp. He edited it and wrote two-and a half chapters to complete it, based on the notes of Dumas.Published in 2005 in France, it quickly became a bestseller.

Pietro Monaco sua moglie Maria Oliverio e i loro complici, 1864) Robin Hood (Robin Hood le proscrit, 1863) The Count of Moret; The Red Sphinx; or, Richelieu and his rivals (Le Comte de Moret; Le Sphinx Rouge,

18651866) The Women's War (La Guerre des Femmes): follows Baron des Canolles, a naive Gascon soldier who falls in

love with two women.

DramaAlthough best known now as a novelist, Dumas first earned fame as a dramatist. His Henri III et sa cour (1829) wasthe first of the great Romantic historical dramas produced on the Paris stage, preceding Victor Hugo's more famousHernani (1830). Produced at the Comdie-Franaise and starring the famous Mademoiselle Mars, Dumas' play wasan enormous success and launched him on his career. It had fifty performances over the next year, extraordinary atthe time.Other hits followed. Antony (1831)a drama with a contemporary Byronic herois considered the firstnon-historical Romantic drama. It starred Mars' great rival Marie Dorval. Charles VII at the Homes of His Great Vassals (Charles VII chez ses grands vassaux, 1831). This drama was

adapted by the Russian composer Csar Cui for his opera The Saracen. La Tour de Nesle (1832), an historical melodrama Kean (1836), based on the life of the notable late English actor Edmund Kean. The great French actor Frdrick

Lematre played him in the production. The Gold Thieves (after 1857): an unpublished five-act play. It was discovered in 2002 by the Canadian scholar

Reginald Hamel, who was researching in the Bibliothque Nationale de France. The play was published in Francein 2004 by Honor-Champion. Hamel said that Dumas was inspired by a novel written in 1857 by his mistressClste de Mogador.

Dumas wrote many plays and adapted several of his novels as dramas. He founded the Thtre Historique in the1840s, located on the Boulevard du Temple in Paris. The building was used after 1851 by the Opra National(established by Adolphe Adam in 1847). It was renamed the Thtre Lyrique in 1851.

Non-fictionDumas was a prolific writer of non-fiction. He wrote journal articles on politics and culture, and books on Frenchhistory.His lengthy Grand Dictionnaire de cuisine (Great Dictionary of Cuisine) was published posthumously in 1873. Acombination of encyclopedia and cookbook, it reflects Dumas' interests as both a gourmet and an expert cook. Anabridged version (the Petit Dictionnaire de cuisine, or Small Dictionary of Cuisine) was published in 1882.He was also known for his travel writing. These books included:

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Impressions de voyage: En Suisse (Travel Impressions: In Switzerland, 1834) Une Anne Florence (A Year in Florence, 1841) De Paris Cadix (From Paris to Cadiz, 1847) Le Journal de Madame Giovanni (The Journal of Madame Giovanni, 1856) Travel Impressions in the Kingdom of Napoli/Naples Trilogy: Impressions of Travel in Sicily (Le Speronare (Sicily 1835), 1842 Captain Arena (Le Capitaine Arena (Italy Aeolian Islands and Calabria 1835), 1842 Impressions of Travel in Naples (Le Corricolo (Rome Naples 1835), 1843Travel Impressions in Russia Le Caucase Original edition: Paris 1859 Adventures in Czarist Russia, or From Paris to Astrakhan (Impressions de voyage: En Russie; De Paris

Astrakan: Nouvelles impressions de voyage (1858), 18591862 Voyage to the Caucasus (Le Caucase : Impressions de voyage; suite de En Russie (1859), 18581859

Personal images

Alexandre Dumas about 1832 Alexandre Dumas Alexandre Dumas in hislibrary, par Maurice

Leloir

Alexandre Dumas in 1860

Alexandre Dumas, clich byCharles Reutlinger

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Notes[1] http:/ / en. wikipedia. org/ w/ index. php?title=Template:French_literature_sidebar& action=edit[2] Alexandre Dumas (http:/ / encarta. msn. com/ encyclopedia_761563124/ Alexandre_Dumas. html) on Encarta. Archived (http:/ / www.

webcitation. org/ 5kwDgz6ji) 31 October 2009.[3] Watts Phillips: Artist and Playwright by Emma Watts Phillips. 1891 (https:/ / archive. org/ details/ wattsphillipsar01philgoog) pg 63[4] John G. Gallaher, General Alexandre Dumas: Soldier of the French Revolution (http:/ / books. google. com/ books?id=zZ-ALXkowCEC&

pg=PA98& source=gbs_toc_r& cad=4#v=onepage& q& f=false), Southern Illinois University, 1997, p. 98[5] Claude Schopp (http:/ / www. dumaspere. com/ pages/ vie/ biographie. html), Socit des Amis d'Alexandre Dumas 1998-2008[6] "Le mtissage rentre au Panthon" (http:/ / marianne2. fr/ -Le-metissage-rentre-au-Pantheon-_a40493. html).[7] "L'association des Amis du Gnral Alexandre Dumas" (http:/ / www. general-dumas. com/ index. php?option=com_content& view=article&

id=47& Itemid=57), Website, accessed 11 August 2012[8] See Andrew Lang's essay, "Alexandre Dumas", in his Essays in Little (1891), for a full description of these collaborations.[9] British Library biography (http:/ / www. bl. uk/ onlinegallery/ features/ blackeuro/ pdf/ dumas. pdf)[10] Dorsey Kleitz, "Adah Isaacs Menken" (http:/ / books. google. com/ books?id=IKped0j8PXwC& pg=PA294& dq=menken&

f=false#v=onepage& q=menken& f=false), in Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century, ed. by Eric L. Haralson, pp.294-296 (1998) (ISBN 978-1-57958-008-7)

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catalog) Herald Sun: Lost Dumas play discovered (http:/ / www. heraldsun. news. com. au/ common/ story_page/

0,5478,10904968%5E1702,00. html) Lost Dumas novel hits bookshelves (http:/ / news. bbc. co. uk/ 2/ hi/ entertainment/ 4609819. stm) Dumas' Works (http:/ / www. intratext. com/ Catalogo/ Autori/ AUT139. HTM): text, concordances and

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Rafferty, Terrence. "All for One" (http:/ / www. nytimes. com/ 2006/ 08/ 20/ books/ review/ 20pevear.html?ex=1313726400& en=dd1eb4e9bdbf3499& ei=5088& partner=rssnyt& emc=rss), The New York Times(http:/ / www. nytimes. com/ ), August20, 2006 (a review of the new translation of The Three Musketeers, ISBN0-670-03779-6)

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