#ALEXANDRE DUMAS PLAYS SERIES#

He wrote many more plays, often rewriting his novels into popular plays, and performing them in his own theater, le ThГЁГўtre Historique.ДumasвЂ™ forte, however, were not his plays but his historical novels. The son of a general under NapoleonвЂ™s rule, Dumas started out as a notary clerk - he even gained a position with Duc dвЂ™Orleans (later king Louis Philippe) вЂ“ until he wrote his breakthrough play Henri III et Sa Cour (1829), which was a great success at La Comedie FranГ§aise. La Comtesse Romani (1876) coll.The loyal readers and the famous D'ArtagnanДЄlexandre Dumas (1802-1870) wrote over 300 works (novels, plays, short stories), including Les Trois Mousquetaires and Le Comte de Monte-Cristo.Un Mariage dans un chapeau (1859) coll.Le Fils naturel ( The Illegitimate Son, 1858).Giuseppe Verdi's La traviata (based on The Lady of the Camellias).L'Affaire Clemenceau, MГ©moire de l'accusГ© (1866), illustrations by Albert Besnard.Histoire de la loterie du lingot d'or (1851).

#ALEXANDRE DUMAS PLAYS SERIES#

Series of historical novels in La Gazette de France titled Tristan le Roux, Henri de Navarre, Les Deux Frondes (1849вЂ“51) Texte online (Gallica)), with a version illustrated by Albert Besnard English titled as Camellias

Aventures de quatre femmes et d'un perroquet (1847).

His grave is some 100 metres away from that of Marie Duplessis.Д«ibliography Novels French literature In 1874, he was admitted to the AcadГ©mie franГ§aise and in 1894 he was awarded the LГ©gion d'honneur.Дumas died at Marly-le-Roi, Yvelines, on 27 November 1895, and was interred in the Montmartre Cemetery in Paris. After Nadezhda's death, Dumas married Henriette RГ©gnier de La BriГЁre (1851вЂ“1934) in June 1895, without issue. The couple had two daughters: Marie-Alexandrine-Henriette 'Colette' Dumas (born 20 November 1860), who married Maurice Lippmann and was the mother of Serge NapolГ©on Lippmann (1886вЂ“1975) and Auguste Alexandre Lippmann (1881вЂ“1960) and Jeanine Dumas ( вЂ“ 1943), who married Ernest Lecourt d'Hauterive (1864вЂ“1957), son of George Lecourt d'Hauterive and his wife, LГ©ontine de Leusse. On 31 December 1864, in Moscow, Dumas married Nadezhda von Knorring (1826 вЂ“ April 1895), daughter of Johan Reinhold von Knorring and widow of Alexander Grigorievich Narishkin. After this, he virtually abandoned writing novels, though his semi-autobiographical L'Affaire Clemenceau (1867) achieved some solid success.

He was not only more renowned than his father during his lifetime, but also dominated the serious French stage for most of the second half of the 19th century. Adapted into a play, it was titled Camille in English and became the basis for Verdi's 1853 opera, La traviata, Duplessis undergoing yet another name change, this time to Violetta ValГ©ry.ДЄlthough he admitted that he had done the adaptation because he needed the money, he had great success with the play, which started his career as a dramatist. There he met Marie Duplessis, a young courtesan who would be the inspiration for the character Marguerite Gauthier in his romantic novel La Dame aux camГ©lias ( The Lady of the Camellias). In 1844, Dumas moved to Saint-Germain-en-Laye, near Paris, to live with his father. Their son Thomas-Alexandre Dumas became a high-ranking general of Revolutionary France. These issues profoundly influenced his thoughts, behaviour, and writing.Дumas' paternal great-grandparents were Marquis Alexandre-Antoine Davy de la Pailleterie, a French nobleman and GГ©nГ©ral commissaire in the Artillery in the colony of Saint-Domingue-now Haiti-and Marie-Cessette Dumas, an African slave. At boarding schools, he was constantly taunted by his classmates because of his family situation. In almost all of his writings, he emphasized the moral purpose of literature in his play The Illegitimate Son (1858) he espoused the belief that if a man fathers an illegitimate child, then he has an obligation to legitimize the child and marry the woman (see Illegitimacy in fiction). Her agony inspired the younger Dumas to write about tragic female characters. At that time, the law allowed the elder Dumas to take the child away from his mother. In 1831 his father legally recognized him and ensured that the young Dumas received the best education possible at the Institution Goubaux and the CollГЁge Bourbon. Dumas was born in Paris, France, the illegitimate child of Marie-Laure-Catherine Labay (1794вЂ“1868), a dressmaker, and novelist Alexandre Dumas.

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