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who was Alexander dumas .plz give great information

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Alexandre Dumas (UK: /ˈdjuːmɑː, dʊˈmɑː/, US: /djuːˈmɑː/; French: [alɛksɑ̃dʁ dyma]; born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie [dyma davi də la pajətʁi]; 24 July 1802 – 5 December 1870),[1]also known as Alexandre Dumas père (Frenchfor 'father'), was a French writer. 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 high adventure were originally published as serials, including The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After, and The Vicomte de Bragelonne: Ten Years Later. His novels have been adapted since the early twentieth century for nearly 200 films. Dumas' last novel, The Knight of Sainte-Hermine,unfinished at his death, was completed by scholar Claude Schopp and published in 2005.[2] It was published in English in 2008 as The Last Cavalier.

Alexandre Dumas



Dumas in 1855

BornDumas Davy de la Pailleterie
24 July 1802
Villers-Cotterêts, Aisne, First French RepublicDied5 December 1870(aged 68)
Puys (near Dieppe), Seine-Maritime, Republic of FranceOccupationNovelist, playwrightNationalityFrenchPeriod1829–1869Literary movementRomanticism and Historical fictionNotable worksThe Three Musketeers(1844)
The Count of Monte Cristo (1844–1845)Relatives

Thomas-Alexandre Dumas
(father)

Marie-Cessette Dumas
(paternal grandmother)

Alexandre Dumas fils
(son)

Alexandre Lippmann
(great-grandson)

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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 totalled 100,000 pages.[3] In the 1840s, Dumas founded the Théâtre Historique in Paris.

His father, General Thomas-Alexandre Davy de la Pailleterie, was born in the French colony of Saint-Domingue (present-day Haiti) to Alexandre Antoine Davy de la Pailleterie, a French nobleman, and Marie-Cessette Dumas, a slave of African descent.[4] At age 14 Thomas-Alexandre was taken by his father to France, where he was educated in a military academy and entered the military for what became an illustrious career.

Answer 2

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