× Alexander Dumas

Alexandre DumasHe(1802-1870)
was born on July 24 1802 near
Soissons, France

He was a son of a Creole general

of the French Revolutionary
armies.

His grandfather was from a noble

family, and his grandmother had
been a Dominican slave.

Dumas father died when he was

four years old, leaving the family
with very little money.
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(1802-1870)
Dumas was not a very good student, but
his handwriting was noticeably beautiful, and
he studied to work as a notary (a public
officer who witnesses the signing of
important documents and makes them
official)

began writing musical comedies and then

historical plays in collaboration (working
together with others) with a poet friend named
Adolphe de Leuven.

Dumas then found work as a secretary to

the Duke of Orléans (later King Louis
Philippe, 1773–1850) in Paris, France.
Dumas was not a very good
student, but his handwriting was
noticeably beautiful, and he studied
to work as a notary (a public
officer who witnesses the signing
of important documents and
makes them official)

began writing musical

comedies and then historical plays
in collaboration (working together
with others) with a poet friend named
Adolphe de Leuven.

Dumas then found work as a

secretary to the Duke of Orléans
(later King Louis Philippe, 1773–
1850) in Paris, France.
 Alexandre Dumas (1802-
1870)
 was greatly influenced by the works of William
Shakespeare (1564–1616) and wrote his first
plays in 1825 and 1826. Others followed,
with Henri III et sa cour (1829) bringing him great
success and popularity

 The revolution of 1830 slowed down Dumas's

writing, and he became a strong supporter of the
Marquis de Lafayette.
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(1802-1870)
 In 1853 Dumas returned to Paris and began the daily paper Le
Mousquetaire, which was devoted to art and literature. The paper
survived until 1857, and Dumas then published the weekly
paper Monte-Cristo.

 In 1860 he was named keeper of museums in Naples, Italy.

Alexandre Dumas (1802-
1870)
 After remaining there for four years, he returned to Paris, where he found
himself deep in debt and regularly chased by debt collectors. He also
had many women friends who expected—and received—expensive gifts
from him.

 Working hard to pay his debts, Dumas produced a number of works of

lower quality, among them Madame de Chamblay (1863) and Les
Mohicans de Paris (1864), which were not very successful

 His unhappy last years were softened by the presence of his son,
Alexandre, and his daughter, Madame Petel. (The elder Alexandre
Dumas is generally called Dumas père to distinguish him from his son,
known as Dumas fils, who was also a dramatistand novelist.)
Dumas père died in poverty on December 5, 1870.
 The Three
Musketeers
 French: Les Trois Mousquetaires
 is a historical adventure novel written in 1844 by French
author Alexandre Dumas
 In genre, The Three Musketeers is primarily a historical and
adventure novel. However, Dumas also frequently works into
the plot various injustices, abuses, and absurdities of the old
regime, giving the novel an additional political aspect at a time
when the debate in France
between republics and monarchist was still fierce. The story
was first serialised from March to July 1844, during the july
monarchy four years before the French of Revolution violently
established the Second Republic.
Settings
× 17th century France during the reign of Louis
XIII. The story takes place predominantly in
Paris, but the protagonist's adventures take him
across the French countryside and as far as
England.
Characters :
× D’artagnan – a poor noble
young man from Gascony
× Athos- father figure to
D’artagnan
× Aramis-
× Porthos
Milady de Winter - a beautiful and evil spy of the
Cardinal, she is also Athos's ex-wife

Rochefort – a more conventional agent of the

Cardinal.

Cardinal Richeliue - who plots against the Queen in

resentment at having his advances rebuffed