アレクサンドル・デュマ・ペール Alexandre Dumas Google Doodle
Today the search engine Google is celebrating this Alexandre Dumas day and shared an interactive Google Doodle slideshow which is showing the life of Alexandre Dumas. Perhaps best recognized for daring adventure novels, Dumas shaped a prolific body of work that endures to thrill readers around the world today.
Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie borned on 24 July 1802 also known as Alexandre Dumas père. He was a French writer. His works have been interpreted into many languages, and he is one of the most extensively read French authors.
Many of his historical novels of high adventure were originally published as serials, including The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After, and The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later. His novels have been modified since the early twentieth century into nearly 200 films.
Born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie
24 July 1802
Villers-Cotterêts, Aisne, First French Republic
Died 5 December 1870 (aged 68)
Puys (near Dieppe), Seine-Maritime, French Third Republic
Occupation Novelist, playwright
Nationality French
Period 1829–1869
Literary movement Romanticism and historical fiction
Notable works The Three Musketeers (1844)
The Count of Monte Cristo (1844–1845)
Children Alexandre Dumas fils (son)
Parents Thomas-Alexandre Dumas
Marie-Louise Labouret
Relatives
Marie-Cessette Dumas (paternal grandmother)
Alexandre Lippmann (great-grandson)
His father, General Thomas-Alexandre Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie, was born in the French colony of Saint-Domingue (present-day Haiti) to Alexandre Antoine Davy de la Pailleterie, a French nobleman, and Marie-Cessette Dumas, an enslaved Black woman.
At age 14, Thomas-Alexandre was taken by his father to France, where he was educated in a military academy and entered the military for what became an illustrious career.
On 1 February 1840, Dumas married actress Ida Ferrier (born Marguerite-Joséphine Ferrand) (1811–1859). He had numerous liaisons with other women and was known to have fathered at least four children by them.
The most successful action-packed serialized novels of the 1840s, Three Musketeers, these works have made him one of the most popular French authors in the world, and his books have been translated into over 100 languages.
Dumas began his career by writing plays, which were successfully produced from the first. He also wrote numerous magazine articles and travel books; his published works totalled 100,000 pages
Merci, Alexandre Dumas, for all the enthusiasm you’ve given to so many readers!
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