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Alexandre Dumas, born Alexandre Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie on the 24th of July 1802 and died the 5th of December 1870, was a French novelist and playwright. He is one of the most widely read French authors, known for The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers, and Twenty Years After.
Alexandre Dumas wrote The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After, and The Vicomte de Bragelonne, many first published as serials. He published a total of 100,000 pages across novels, plays, travel books, and nonfiction, including the posthumous Grand Dictionnaire de cuisine.
Alexandre Dumas was the son of General Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, who was born in Saint-Domingue to the French nobleman Alexandre Antoine Davy de la Pailleterie and Marie-Cessette Dumas, an enslaved woman of Afro-Caribbean ancestry. Thomas-Alexandre became the first soldier of Afro-Antilles origin promoted to general in the French army, by the age of 31.
Alexandre Dumas fled France in 1851 for Brussels after Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte, who disapproved of him, was elected, and also to escape his creditors. He later moved to Russia for two years and then to Italy before returning to Paris in 1864.
Alexandre Dumas relied on numerous assistants and collaborators, of whom Auguste Maquet was the best known. Maquet took Dumas to court and won a higher payment rate but was never granted a by-line. Dumas also ran a production studio of writers working under his direction.
Alexandre Dumas was first buried at his birthplace of Villers-Cotterets in the department of Aisne. In 2002, for the bicentenary of his birth, French President Jacques Chirac had his ashes re-interred at the Pantheon in Paris, alongside Victor Hugo and Emile Zola.