WRITER

Alexandre Dumas

1802 - 1870

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Alexandre Dumas (born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie, 24 July 1802 – 5 December 1870), also known as Alexandre Dumas père, 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. Many of his historical novels of adventure were originally published as serials, including The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After and The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alexandre Dumas has received more than 9,258,174 page views. His biography is available in 112 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 111 in 2019). Alexandre Dumas is the 33rd most popular writer, the 34th most popular biography from France (down from 27th in 2019) and the 9th most popular French Writer.

Alexandre Dumas is most famous for writing "The Three Musketeers" and "The Count of Monte Cristo."

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Notable Works

Vingt ans après
Ficción, Fiction, France
1800
Vicomte de Bragelonne
Louis in fiction, France in fiction, Fiction
1800
Impressions de voyage
Description and travel, Descripciones y viajes, Description
1835
The Count of Monte Cristo
Social life and customs, Historical fiction, Pirates
The Count of Monte Cristo is an adventure story set in France and Italy. The story commences just before the Hundred Days of Napoleon and continues on to the reign of King Louis-Philippe. Edmond Dantes, a young merchant sailor is falsely accused of being a Bonapartiste and imprisoned on an island. It takes 14 years for Dantes to escape, during which he befriends an ageing fellow prisoner who bequeaths him a fortune hidden in a cave on an Italian island. With this fortune Dantes reinvents himself as the Count of the title and returns to France to seek revenge against the men who ruined his life.
1830
La Dame aux camélias
Fiction, Courtesans, Théâtre du Gymnase-Armand Hammer
1800
La tulipe noire
Fiction, History, Tulip Mania, 1634-1637
1800
Les trois mousquetaires
History, Fiction, Swordsmen
During the reign of France's King Louis XIV, D'Artagnan and three musketeers unite to defend the honor of Anne of Austria against the plots of Cardinal Richeliu.
1844
Le roman du masque de fer
History, Fiction, Accessible book
You are about to hear," said Aramis, "an account which few could now give; for it refers to a secret which they buried with their dead...." So begins the magnificent concluding story of the swashbuckling Musketeers--Aramis, Athos, Porthos, and D'Artagnan. Aramis--plotting against the King of France--bribes his way into the jail cells of the Bastille where a certain prisoner has been entombed for eight long years. The prisoner knows neither his real name nor the crime he has committed. But Aramis knows the secret of the prisoner's identity ... a secret so dangerous that its revelation could topple the King from his throne! Aramis ... plotting against the King? The motto of the Musketeers has been "All for one, and one for all." Has Aramis betrayed his friends? Is this the end of the Musketeers?
1600
La tulipe noire
Fiction, Tulip Mania, 1634-1637, History
On the 20th of August, 1672, the city of the Hague, always so lively, so neat, and so trim that one might believe every day to be Sunday, with its shady park, with its tall trees, spreading over its Gothic houses, with its canals like large mirrors, in which its steeples and its almost Eastern cupolas are reflected, - the city of the Hague, the capital of the Seven United Provinces, was swelling in all its arteries with a black and red stream of hurried, panting, and restless citizens, who, with their knives in their girdles, muskets on their shoulders, or sticks in their hands, were pushing on to the Buytenhof, a terrible prison, the grated windows of which are still shown, where, on the charge of attempted murder preferred against him by the surgeon Tyckelaer, Cornelius de Witt, the brother of the Grand Pensionary of Holland was confined.
1800
Le roman du masque de fer
History, Fiction, Accessible book
You are about to hear," said Aramis, "an account which few could now give; for it refers to a secret which they buried with their dead...." So begins the magnificent concluding story of the swashbuckling Musketeers--Aramis, Athos, Porthos, and D'Artagnan. Aramis--plotting against the King of France--bribes his way into the jail cells of the Bastille where a certain prisoner has been entombed for eight long years. The prisoner knows neither his real name nor the crime he has committed. But Aramis knows the secret of the prisoner's identity ... a secret so dangerous that its revelation could topple the King from his throne! Aramis ... plotting against the King? The motto of the Musketeers has been "All for one, and one for all." Has Aramis betrayed his friends? Is this the end of the Musketeers?
1600
Le Comte de Monte Cristo
France -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction, France, Fiction
xxix, 608 pages ; 21 cm
1830
Les trois mousquetaires
History, Fiction, Swordsmen
During the reign of France's King Louis XIV, D'Artagnan and three musketeers unite to defend the honor of Anne of Austria against the plots of Cardinal Richeliu.
1844
La tulipe noire
Fiction, Tulip Mania, 1634-1637, History
On the 20th of August, 1672, the city of the Hague, always so lively, so neat, and so trim that one might believe every day to be Sunday, with its shady park, with its tall trees, spreading over its Gothic houses, with its canals like large mirrors, in which its steeples and its almost Eastern cupolas are reflected, - the city of the Hague, the capital of the Seven United Provinces, was swelling in all its arteries with a black and red stream of hurried, panting, and restless citizens, who, with their knives in their girdles, muskets on their shoulders, or sticks in their hands, were pushing on to the Buytenhof, a terrible prison, the grated windows of which are still shown, where, on the charge of attempted murder preferred against him by the surgeon Tyckelaer, Cornelius de Witt, the brother of the Grand Pensionary of Holland was confined.
1800
Le Comte de Monte Cristo
France -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction, France, Fiction
xxix, 608 pages ; 21 cm
1830
Vingt ans apres̀
Ficción, Fiction, France
Two decades have passed since the musketeers triumphed over Cardinal Richelieu and Milady. Time has weakened their resolve, and dispersed their loyalties. But treasons and strategems still cry out for justice: civil war endangers the throne of France, and in England, Cromwell threatens to send Charles I to the scaffold. The quartet of musketeers come out of retirement to cross swords with time, the malevolence of men, and the forces of history. But their greatest test is the titanic struggle with the son of Milady who wears the face of evil.
1800
La dame aux camélias [novel]
Classic Literature, Fiction, OverDrive
- Mon avis est qu'on ne peut creer des personnages que lorsque l'on a beaucoup etudie les hommes, comme on ne peut parler une langue qu'a la condition de l'avoir serieusement apprise.
1848
Vingt ans apres̀
Ficción, Fiction, France
Two decades have passed since the musketeers triumphed over Cardinal Richelieu and Milady. Time has weakened their resolve, and dispersed their loyalties. But treasons and strategems still cry out for justice: civil war endangers the throne of France, and in England, Cromwell threatens to send Charles I to the scaffold. The quartet of musketeers come out of retirement to cross swords with time, the malevolence of men, and the forces of history. But their greatest test is the titanic struggle with the son of Milady who wears the face of evil.
1800
La dame aux camélias [novel]
Classic Literature, Fiction, OverDrive
- Mon avis est qu'on ne peut creer des personnages que lorsque l'on a beaucoup etudie les hommes, comme on ne peut parler une langue qu'a la condition de l'avoir serieusement apprise.
1848
Vingt ans apres̀
Ficción, Fiction, France
Two decades have passed since the musketeers triumphed over Cardinal Richelieu and Milady. Time has weakened their resolve, and dispersed their loyalties. But treasons and strategems still cry out for justice: civil war endangers the throne of France, and in England, Cromwell threatens to send Charles I to the scaffold. The quartet of musketeers come out of retirement to cross swords with time, the malevolence of men, and the forces of history. But their greatest test is the titanic struggle with the son of Milady who wears the face of evil.
1800
La dame aux camélias [novel]
Classic Literature, Fiction, OverDrive
- Mon avis est qu'on ne peut creer des personnages que lorsque l'on a beaucoup etudie les hommes, comme on ne peut parler une langue qu'a la condition de l'avoir serieusement apprise.
1848
Le roman du masque de fer
History, Fiction, Accessible book
You are about to hear," said Aramis, "an account which few could now give; for it refers to a secret which they buried with their dead...." So begins the magnificent concluding story of the swashbuckling Musketeers--Aramis, Athos, Porthos, and D'Artagnan. Aramis--plotting against the King of France--bribes his way into the jail cells of the Bastille where a certain prisoner has been entombed for eight long years. The prisoner knows neither his real name nor the crime he has committed. But Aramis knows the secret of the prisoner's identity ... a secret so dangerous that its revelation could topple the King from his throne! Aramis ... plotting against the King? The motto of the Musketeers has been "All for one, and one for all." Has Aramis betrayed his friends? Is this the end of the Musketeers?
1600
Le Comte de Monte Cristo
France -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction, France, Fiction
xxix, 608 pages ; 21 cm
1830
La tulipe noire
Fiction, Tulip Mania, 1634-1637, History
On the 20th of August, 1672, the city of the Hague, always so lively, so neat, and so trim that one might believe every day to be Sunday, with its shady park, with its tall trees, spreading over its Gothic houses, with its canals like large mirrors, in which its steeples and its almost Eastern cupolas are reflected, - the city of the Hague, the capital of the Seven United Provinces, was swelling in all its arteries with a black and red stream of hurried, panting, and restless citizens, who, with their knives in their girdles, muskets on their shoulders, or sticks in their hands, were pushing on to the Buytenhof, a terrible prison, the grated windows of which are still shown, where, on the charge of attempted murder preferred against him by the surgeon Tyckelaer, Cornelius de Witt, the brother of the Grand Pensionary of Holland was confined.
1800
Les trois mousquetaires
History, Fiction, Swordsmen
During the reign of France's King Louis XIV, D'Artagnan and three musketeers unite to defend the honor of Anne of Austria against the plots of Cardinal Richeliu.
1844

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Alexandre Dumas ranks 33 out of 7,302. Before him are Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Giovanni Boccaccio, Denis Diderot, Agatha Christie, Horace, and Ernest Hemingway. After him are Anne Frank, Selma Lagerlöf, Alexander Pushkin, Friedrich Schiller, H. P. Lovecraft, and Charles Dickens.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1802, Alexandre Dumas ranks 2. Before him is Victor Hugo. After him are Niels Henrik Abel, Archduke Franz Karl of Austria, Lajos Kossuth, Elias Lönnrot, János Bolyai, Miguel I of Portugal, Wilhelm Hauff, Louis-Eugène Cavaignac, Charles Wheatstone, and Germain Henri Hess. Among people deceased in 1870, Alexandre Dumas ranks 1. After him are Charles Dickens, Prosper Mérimée, Robert E. Lee, Frédéric Bazille, Comte de Lautréamont, Josef Strauss, Francisco Solano López, Alexander Herzen, Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany, Marie-Caroline of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Duchess of Berry, and Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer.

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In France

Among people born in France, Alexandre Dumas ranks 34 out of 6,770. Before him are Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807), Nostradamus (1503), Napoleon III (1808), Édith Piaf (1915), Paul Gauguin (1848), and Émile Durkheim (1858). After him are Charles Baudelaire (1821), Pierre Curie (1859), Émile Zola (1840), Stendhal (1783), Gustave Flaubert (1821), and Henry IV of France (1553).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Alexandre Dumas ranks 9. Before him are Jules Verne (1828), Molière (1622), Honoré de Balzac (1799), Jean-Paul Sartre (1905), Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900), and Denis Diderot (1713). After him are Charles Baudelaire (1821), Émile Zola (1840), Stendhal (1783), Gustave Flaubert (1821), Simone de Beauvoir (1908), and Octave Mirbeau (1848).

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