Alexandre Dumas : Citations

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Alexandre Dumas (also known as Alexandre Dumas père) is a French writer born July 24, 1802 in Villers-Cotterêts (Aisne) and died December 5, 1870 in the hamlet of Puys, former commune of Neuville-lès-Dieppe, today integrated into Dieppe (Seine-Maritime).Grandson of a black slave and a Creole marquis, Alexandre Dumas has largely taken revenge for his “misfortune”.When his father died, the family had few resources for Alexandres studies.Thanks to his fathers connections, he found a job as a notarys clerk.His writing talents were quickly noticed, and it was under the protection of the Duke of Orléans that he worked until the revolution.His literary career began with the theater but, after the triumph of his book Henri III et son cour, he preferred to devote himself to the novel.The popular successes of serial novels follow one another....
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