Alexandre Dumas Biography

Alexandre Dumas, Dramatist

Born as	Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie
Occup.	Dramatist
From	France
Born	July 24, 1802 Villers-Cotterets, France
Died	December 5, 1870 Puys near Dieppe
Aged	68 years

Early Life
Alexandre Dumas was born on July 24, 1802, in the village of Villers-Cotterêts, located just beyond Paris, France. His birth name was Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie, and also he was the son of General Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, a French army hero as well as Marie-Louise Elizabeth Labouret, a Frenchwoman named. As a result of his dad's African ancestry, Alexandre was of mixed-race as well as dealt with racial prejudice throughout his life.

When Alexandre's papa passed away in 1806, the family encountered economic difficulties, and young Dumas got a restricted formal education. Alexandre worked as a staff for a regional notary to help support his household. Nevertheless, his enthusiasm for literary works constantly prevailed, as well as he started to compose plays, short articles, and tales in his leisure time.

Job Beginnings
In 1822, Dumas relocated to Paris and worked as a scribe for King Louis XVIII. Regardless of his meager income, he continued to seek his literary passions. In the early 1820s, he began to create plays, such as "La Chasse et L'Amour" and also "La Noce et la Vie". It was during this time that he took on the pen name of Alexandre Dumas.

Dumas acquired success in the 1820s and 1830s as a playwright, with his dramatization catching the general public's passion with their mix of background, romance, and experience. His first notable play was "Henry III and His Court" in 1829, which was very successful and also brought him substantial recognition.

Following this, Dumas remained to create plays, consisting of "Christine" as well as "Antony" in the late 1820s as well as 1830s. He likewise ended up being involved in the French Romantic movement, a team of like-minded writers and also artists that highlighted individualism and also looked for to break devoid of classic conventions.

Literary Success: The Three Musketeers and Beyond
Alexandre Dumas transformed his interest to books, and also it was during this duration that he produced a few of his most well-known jobs. In 1844, he released his best-known job, "The Three Musketeers", which was at first serialized in a newspaper. A tale of adventure, commitment, and intrigue, it focused around the protagonists d'Artagnan, Athos, Porthos, as well as Aramis, a group of daring and clever French musketeers.

Following the immense success of "The Three Musketeers", he published its sequels, "Twenty Years After" (1845) as well as "The Vicomte de Bragelonne" (1847-1850). Alongside this series, Dumas composed various other celebrated works, such as "The Count of Monte Cristo" (1844-1845), a story of retribution as well as redemption that astounded target markets worldwide.

Dumas' writing was noted for its historical precision as well as vivid characters. He usually worked together with chroniclers and scientists, including Auguste Maquet, to guarantee his stories precisely showed historic events.

Later Years and also Death
Alexandre Dumas' later years were noted by economic struggles and also a decline in appeal, despite his many released works. He tried to run a movie theater in Paris in the late 1840s, however it soon declared bankruptcy. As a result of mounting financial debts, Dumas took off to Belgium for a few years before returning to Paris to resume his writing occupation.

Throughout the 1850s and also 1860s, Dumas continued to compose stories, plays, as well as travelogues, but his jobs were not as favored as his earlier successes. He eventually pulled back to his estate in Puys, Normandy, where he died on December 5, 1870, at 68.

Heritage
Alexandre Dumas continues to be among the most widely review French writers in history, with his jobs equated right into over 100 languages. A lot of his novels have actually influenced countless movie, phase, as well as television adjustments, including "The Three Musketeers" and "The Count of Monte Cristo". He is born in mind as a master writer who skillfully combined background, romance, and journey to produce long-lasting, enjoyable works of literature.

Our collection contains 18 quotes who is written / told by Alexandre.

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18 Famous quotes by Alexandre Dumas

"Nothing succeeds like success"

"How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it"

"A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it"

"Business? It's quite simple; it's other people's money"

"All for one, one for all"

"All for one and one for all"

"If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself"

"It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job"

"Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it"

"All generalizations are dangerous, even this one"

"I prefer rogues to imbeciles, because they sometimes take a rest"

"All for one, one for all, that is our device"

"Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss"

"Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as no one else ever works"

"It is rare that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman"

"Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit"

"He was thinking alone, and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force four times multiplied, with which he did not doubt, as with the lever for which Archimedes sought, they should succeed in moving the world, when some one tapped gently at his door"

"All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope"