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Alexandre Lippmann (great-grandson) Signature. Alexandre Dumas [a] (born 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.
Les trois présents de M. d'Artagnan père. The Three Musketeers (French: Les Trois Mousquetaires, [le tʁwɑ muskətɛːʁ]) is a French historical adventure novel written in 1844 by French author Alexandre Dumas. As with some of his other works, he wrote it in collaboration with ghostwriter Auguste Maquet. [1] [2] It is in the swashbuckler ...
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 Creole general, from the French colony of Saint-Domingue, in Revolutionary France. Along with his French contemporary Joseph Serrant and other notable ...
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), published in 1848, which was adapted into Giuseppe Verdi's 1853 opera La traviata (The Fallen Woman), as well as numerous stage and film productions, usually titled Camille in English ...
The Count of Monte Cristo (French: Le Comte de Monte-Cristo) is an adventure novel written by French author Alexandre Dumas ( père) completed in 1844. It is one of the author's most popular works, along with The Three Musketeers. Like many of his novels, it was expanded from plot outlines suggested by his collaborating ghostwriter Auguste Maquet.
The château was designed by the architect Hippolyte Durand and built between 1844 and 1847 for writer Alexandre Dumas, at the cost of 500,000 francs. Dumas named it after his novel, The Count of Monte Cristo (1844). He called the château his personal "paradise on earth". [1] In 1848, short of money, Dumas sold the property for 31,000 francs. [1]
Axel Dumas was born on 3 July 1970 in Neuilly-sur-Seine near Paris. His ancestor five times removed, Thierry Hermès, was a German French immigrant who founded Hermès in 1837. His paternal uncle, Jean-Louis Dumas, was the CEO of Hermès. His father, Olivier Dumas, is a physician and the author of many articles about Jules Verne.
Giuseppe Balsamo ( Italian: [dʒuˈzɛppe ˈbalsamo]; in French usually Joseph Balsamo; [1] 2 June 1743 – 26 August 1795), known by the alias Count Alessandro di Cagliostro ( US: / kɑːlˈjɔːstroʊ, kæl -/ ka (h)l-YAW-stroh, [2] [3] Italian: [alesˈsandro kaʎˈʎɔstro] ), was an Italian occultist . Cagliostro was an Italian adventurer ...