French writer and dramatist (1802–1870)
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He wrote serials so addictive that 19th-century readers lined up at kiosks waiting for the next installment — The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers — and nearly two centuries later, those same stories have been adapted into close to 200 films.
Alexandre Dumas was born in 1802, the son of a French general whose own father was a nobleman and whose mother was an enslaved African woman in Saint-Domingue. Dumas found early work with the Duke of Orléans, then turned to writing plays that succeeded from the start. By the 1840s he'd founded the Théâtre Historique in Paris and was publishing historical adventure novels as serials — The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After, The Vicomte of Bragelonne, The Count of Monte Cristo — that made him one of the most widely read French authors of his time. His total published output reached 100,000 pag…
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Eh! sire, that is the fate of truth; she is a stern companion; she bristles all over with steel; she wounds those whom she attacks, and sometimes him who speaks her.
My friend, the pleasures to which we are not accustomed oppress us more than the griefs with which we are familiar.
Learn ever to separate the king and the principle of royalty. The king is but man; royalty is the spirit of God.
Eh, gentlemen, let us reckon upon accidents! Life is a chaplet of little miseries which the philosopher counts with a smile.
Weep," said Athos, "weep, heart full of love, youth, and life! Alas, would I could weep like you!
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