Alexandre Dumas

About the Author

Alexandre Dumas (1802–1870) was a French novelist best known for The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo. The grandson of a marquis and the son of a famous general, Dumas was a prolific playwright, travel writer, and head of a production studio who chose his enslaved grandmother’s surname for his professional nom de plume.

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