Alexandre Dumas the Elder

1802 Alexandre Dumas pere (Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie; d. December 5, 1870), French novelist and dramatist (The Three Musketeers; The Count of Monte Cristo; The Man in the Iron Mask; The Black Tulip). His stories have been translated into almost a hundred languages, and have inspired more than 200 motion pictures.

As Dumas employed a large contingent of ghost writers for his formula novels, it has been said, "nobody has read everything of Dumas, not even Dumas himself" ...

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