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Alexandre Dumas [a] (born Alexandre Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie, [b] 24 July 1802 – 5 December 1870), [1] [2] also known as Alexandre Dumas père, [c] was a French novelist and playwright. His works have been translated into many languages and he is one of the most widely read French authors.
Statue of General Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, melted down following a 1941 decision of the Nazi occupation authorities [1] Thomas-Alexandre Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie (French: [tɔmɑ alɛksɑ̃dʁ dymɑ davi də la pajət(ə)ʁi]; known as Thomas-Alexandre Dumas; 25 March 1762 – 26 February 1806) was a French general, from the French colony of Saint-Domingue, in Revolutionary France.
She is one of the central figures in Alexandre Dumas's 1844 novel The Three Musketeers and its sequels Twenty Years After (1845) and The Vicomte de Bragelonne (1847–1850), and has thus been portrayed in numerous film adaptations. Her lady-in-waiting Madame de Motteville wrote the story of the queen's life in her Mémoires d'Anne d'Autriche.
Sarah Bernhardt (French: [saʁa bɛʁnɑʁt]; [note 1] born Henriette-Rosine Bernard; 22 October 1844 – 26 March 1923) was a French stage actress who starred in some of the most popular French plays of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including La Dame aux Camélias by Alexandre Dumas fils, Ruy Blas by Victor Hugo, Fédora and La Tosca by Victorien Sardou, and L'Aiglon by Edmond Rostand.
In 19th century France, the story of Messalina was subject to literary transformation. It underlaid La femme de Claude (Claudius' wife, 1873), the novel by Alexandre Dumas fils, where the hero is Claude Ruper, an embodiment of the French patriotic conscience after the country's defeat in the Franco-Prussian War.
Milady de Winter, often referred to as simply Milady, is a fictional character in the novel The Three Musketeers (1844) by Alexandre Dumas, père, set in 1625 France.She is a spy for Cardinal Richelieu and is one of the dominant antagonists of the story.
Alexandre Dumas fils (French: [alɛksɑ̃dʁ dymɑ fis]; 27 July 1824 – 27 November 1895) was a French author and playwright, best known for the romantic novel La Dame aux Camélias (The Lady of the Camellias, usually titled Camille in English-language versions), published in 1848, which was adapted into Giuseppe Verdi's 1853 opera La traviata (The Fallen Woman), as well as numerous stage ...
The Count of Monte Cristo (French: Le Comte de Monte-Cristo) is an adventure novel by the French author Alexandre Dumas (père) serialized from 1844 to 1846.It is one of the author's most popular works, along with The Three Musketeers and The Man in the Iron Mask.