Timeless tales that still inspire today, the 10 unforgettable Alexandre Dumas novels bring not only adventure but intrigue ...

General Dumas’ heroic achievements and tumultuous life inspired his son, the famous French author Alexandre Dumas, to pen his literary masterpieces “The Three Musketeers” and “The Count of ...

Alexandre Dumas père is the very prolific author of “The Three Musketeers” “The Count of Monte Cristo,” “The Man In the Iron Mask,” and dozens of other novels as well as several plays.

The Count of Monte Cristo is the classic tale of a man slighted by those who he thought trustworthy, who took away his wealth, his love, his freedom. And the sweet sweet act of plotting revenge ...

Then add in his many mistresses and offspring (he only recognized two, most famously his son Alexandre Dumas fils, who wrote the play adapted into La Traviata), and the collection of animals ...

His son, Alexandre Dumas, fils, was also a prolific author and playwright (The Lady of the Camelias) and a member of the French Academy, an honor never granted to the elder Dumas.

If so, why not Alexandre Dumas’s Napoleon, said Dumas, having in the end perhaps as much faculty of imaginative divination as you or I, or even as several historians whom we will not mention.

France buried Alexandre Dumas, author of "The Three Musketeers" and "The Count of Monte Cristo," in the crypt of the Pantheon in Paris.

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