"Monte-Cristo, and to collect books, manuscripts, autographs and other materials on Dumas. Alexandre Dumas Alexandre Dumas (, ; ; born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie ; 24 July 1802 – 5 December 1870), also known as Alexandre Dumas (French for 'father'), was a French writer. His works have been translated into many languages, and he is one of the most widely 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 """". His novels have been adapted since the early twentieth"
"shot there in 1871. The island became internationally famous in the 19th century when Alexandre Dumas used it as a setting for ""The Count of Monte Cristo"", published to widespread acclaim in 1844. In the novel, the main character Edmond Dantès (a commoner who later purchases the noble title of Count) and his mentor, Abbé Faria, were both imprisoned in it. After fourteen years, Dantès makes a daring escape from the castle, becoming the first person ever to do so and survive. In reality, no one is known to have done this. The modern Château d'If maintains a roughly hewn"
"the southern Italian Kingdom of Naples, where he was taken prisoner and thrown into a dungeon. He languished there until the spring of 1801. Returning to France after his release, he and his wife had a son, Alexandre Dumas, who became one of France's most widely read authors of all time. Alexandre Dumas Junior's most famous characters were inspired by his father's life. The general’s grandson, Alexandre Dumas, ""fils"", would become one of France's most celebrated playwrights of the second half of the nineteenth century. Another grandson, , who was never recognized by the novelist Dumas, was a prominent left-leaning"
"The Count of Monte Cristo (1998 miniseries) The Count of Monte Cristo (a.k.a. ""Le Comte de Monte Cristo"") is a French-Italian four-part miniseries based on the 1844 novel ""The Count of Monte Cristo"" by Alexandre Dumas père. Edmond Dantès is falsely accused of Bonapartism and sentenced to spend the rest of his life imprisoned in the dreaded Château d'If, an island fortress from which no prisoner has ever escaped, and to which the most dangerous political prisoners are sent. While imprisoned, he meets Abbé Faria, a fellow prisoner whom everyone believes to be mad. Abbé tells Edmond of a fantastic"
"they contain. And if Monte Cristo publicly reveals these mysteries he can severely punish his enemies... The Prisoner of Château d'If The Prisoner of Château d'If or () is a 1988 Soviet drama film directed by Georgi Yungvald-Khilkevich based on the novel ""The Count of Monte Cristo"" by Alexandre Dumas. The film is set in France, at the beginning of the 19th century. After military defeat, Emperor Napoleon abdicates and is in exile on the island of Elba. As requested by the dying Captain, his assistant Edmond Dantès approaches the island and takes with him a certain letter which he"
"criticized the decision to cast the white actor Gérard Depardieu to play the part of Dumas, who ""was the grandson of a Haitian slave and often referred to himself as a negro"". Dumas (film) Dumas (original title: L'Autre Dumas) is a 2010 French film directed by Safy Nebbou about 19th-century French author Alexandre Dumas. In February 1848, Alexandre Dumas (Gérard Depardieu) is at the height of his fame. He has withdrawn for a few days into the immense Château de Monte-Cristo near Le Port-Marly, that he is building. There he works with his collaborator, Auguste Maquet (Benoît Poelvoorde). If the"
"Alexandre Dumas fils Alexandre Dumas (; 27 July 1824 – 27 November 1895) was a French author and playwright, best known for the romantic novel ""La Dame aux Camélias"" (""The Lady of the Camellias""), published in 1848, which was adapted into Giuseppe Verdi's opera ""La traviata"" (""The Fallen Woman""), as well as numerous stage and film productions, usually titled ""Camille"" in English-language versions. Dumas (French for 'son') was the son of Alexandre Dumas ('father'), also a well-known playwright and author of classic works such as ""The Three Musketeers"". Dumas was admitted to the (French Academy) in 1874 and awarded the"
"The Prisoner of Château d'If The Prisoner of Château d'If or () is a 1988 Soviet drama film directed by Georgi Yungvald-Khilkevich based on the novel ""The Count of Monte Cristo"" by Alexandre Dumas. The film is set in France, at the beginning of the 19th century. After military defeat, Emperor Napoleon abdicates and is in exile on the island of Elba. As requested by the dying Captain, his assistant Edmond Dantès approaches the island and takes with him a certain letter which he has to deliver in Paris. Dantès is very young but his life is already full of"
"famous criminals and crimes from European history. He featured Beatrice Cenci, Martin Guerre, Cesare and Lucrezia Borgia, as well as more recent events and criminals, including the cases of the alleged murderers Karl Ludwig Sand and Antoine François Desrues, who were executed. Dumas collaborated with Augustin Grisier, his fencing master, in his 1840 novel, ""The Fencing Master"". The story is written as Grisier's account of how he came to witness the events of the Decembrist revolt in Russia. The novel was eventually banned in Russia by Czar Nicholas I, and Dumas was prohibited from visiting the country until after the"
"in the story is Fra Diavolo. The Knight of Sainte-Hermine The Knight of Sainte-Hermine (published in France in 2005 under the title ""Le Chevalier de Sainte-Hermine"", and translated to English under the title The Last Cavalier) is an unfinished historical novel by Alexandre Dumas, believed to be Dumas' last major work. The novel was lost until the late twentieth century. Dumas scholar Claude Schopp found an almost-complete copy in the form of a newspaper serial. A number of Dumas' previously forgotten works have been found, but this novel is the largest and most complete at 900 pages. The novel is"
"The Knight of Sainte-Hermine The Knight of Sainte-Hermine (published in France in 2005 under the title ""Le Chevalier de Sainte-Hermine"", and translated to English under the title The Last Cavalier) is an unfinished historical novel by Alexandre Dumas, believed to be Dumas' last major work. The novel was lost until the late twentieth century. Dumas scholar Claude Schopp found an almost-complete copy in the form of a newspaper serial. A number of Dumas' previously forgotten works have been found, but this novel is the largest and most complete at 900 pages. The novel is a swashbuckling tale set during the"
"—M. ANTOINETTE The most famous historical fiction which features Marie Antoinette is the Alexandre Dumas, père novel ""Le Chevalier de Maison-Rouge"" (""The Knight of the Red House,"") which centers on the Carnation Plot. It is actually the first of a series of six books written by Dumas with Marie Antoinette featured, called the ""Marie Antoinette novels"", in which the queen is shown in a sympathetic light, particularly during the ""Diamond Necklace Affair"". Some of the more famous historical novels that have portrayed Marie Antoinette in more recent years includes Carolly Erickson's 2005 novel ""The Hidden Diary of Marie Antoinette"", as"
"Château de Monte-Cristo The Château de Monte-Cristo is a writer's house museum located in the country home of the writer Alexandre Dumas, ""père"". The château was built in 1846 by the architect Hippolyte Durand in Port-Marly, Yvelines, France. Dumas named it after one of his most successful novels: ""The Count of Monte Cristo"" (""Le Comte de Monte-Cristo"", 1845–1846). Durand also built a writing studio on the grounds, which Dumas named the Château d'If after another setting from the same novel. In 1848, short of money, Dumas had to sell the property. The château fell into disrepair by the 1960s, it"
"May 1862, and was a huge popular success, though it was criticized by Gustave Flaubert who said he found ""no truth or greatness in it."" Alexandre Dumas (1802–1870) left Paris in 1851, just before the Empire, partly because of political differences with Napoleon III, who was then Prince-President, but largely because he was deeply in debt and wanted to avoid creditors. After travelling to Belgium, Italy and Russia, he returned to Paris in 1864 and wrote his last major work, ""The Knight of Sainte-Hermine"", before he died in 1870. The son of Dumas, Alexandre Dumas fils (1824–1895), became the most"
"a secret message in the petals of a carnation. According to the biography ""La vie d'Alexandre Dumas père"" by J. Lucas-Dubreton, Dumas had originally titled the work ""Le Chevalier de Rougeville"", but changed the title to ""Le Chevalier de Maison-Rouge"" after receiving a complaint from the son of the Marquis de Rougeville. (French) Le Chevalier de Maison-Rouge Le Chevalier de Maison-Rouge (translated as ""The Knight of Maison-Rouge: A Novel of Marie Antoinette"" or ""The Knight of the Red House"") was written in 1845 by Alexandre Dumas, père. It is related to a series referred to as the Marie Antoinette romances,"
"reinstated racism and slavery in France and its colonies, leaving Dumas with few recourses. The debilitation from Dumas's long imprisonment led to his early death, but his life inspired his son Alexandre Dumas to write books such as ""The Count of Monte Cristo"" and ""The Three Musketeers"". The ""Christian Science Monitor"" called the book a ""remarkable and almost compulsively researched account"" and stated that ""the author spent a decade on the case, and it shows."" ""To tell this tale"", wrote ""The Boston Globe"". ""Reiss must cover the French Revolution, the Haitian Revolution, and the rise of Napoleon toward Empire; he"
"the Pantheon had been a way of correcting that wrong, as Alexandre Dumas was enshrined alongside fellow great authors Victor Hugo and Émile Zola. Chirac noted that although France has produced many great writers, none has been so widely read as Dumas. His novels have been translated into nearly 100 languages. In addition, they have inspired more than 200 motion pictures. In June 2005, Dumas' last novel, ""The Knight of Sainte-Hermine"", was published in France featuring the Battle of Trafalgar. Dumas described a fictional character killing Lord Nelson (Nelson was shot and killed by an unknown sniper). Writing and publishing"
"Twenty Years After Twenty Years After () is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, first serialized from January to August 1845. A book of ""The d'Artagnan Romances"", it is a sequel to ""The Three Musketeers"" and precedes ""The Vicomte de Bragelonne"" (which includes the sub-plot ""Man in the Iron Mask""). The novel follows events in France during the Fronde, during the childhood reign of Louis XIV, and in England near the end of the English Civil War, leading up to the victory of Oliver Cromwell and the execution of King Charles I. Through the words of the main characters, particularly Athos,"
"one of the last decisions of President Mitterrand. Under his presidency, the body argued in favour of complete judicial immunity for the French President. M. Dumas is a member of the Emergency Committee for Iraq. Accused in the Elf affair, he resigned from the Presidency of the Constitutional Council in January 1999. Dumas' conviction for criticising a public prosecutor in his book was found unlawful by the European Court of Human Rights in 2010, by five votes to two. In May 2007, Dumas received a 12-month jail sentence (suspended) for funds he mis-appropriated acting as executor of the will of"
"captors. Released from the dungeon in 1802, he returned to France. Napoleon had seized power and passed the Law of 20 May 1802 – which effectively restored slavery, which had been abolished in 1794 in all the French colonies following the Revolution. And within France, Napoleon's series of harsh racial laws meant black and mixed-race officers were effectively demoted to chain-gang labor, the integrated schools of Paris were closed, and even General Dumas's marriage to a white Frenchwoman was made illegal. General Dumas raised his son, the future novelist Alexandre Dumas, in a house that was officially too close to"
"""The Last Cavalier,"" and has been translated into other languages. Schopp has since found additional material related to the Saints-Hermine saga. Schopp combined them to publish the sequel ""Le Salut de l'Empire"" in 2008. Dumas is briefly mentioned in the 2012 film ""Django Unchained"". The Southern slaveholder Calvin Candie expressed admiration for Dumas, owning his books in his library and even naming one of his slaves D'Artagnan. He is surprised to learn from another white man that Dumas was black (his father's mother was a slave of African descent). Alexandre Dumas wrote numerous stories and historical chronicles of high adventure."
"(1860), Dumas published a short paper, ""État civil du Comte de Monte-Cristo"", on the genesis of the Count of Monte-Cristo. It appears that Dumas had close contacts with members of the Bonaparte family while living in Florence in 1841. In a small boat he sailed around the island of Monte-Cristo accompanied by a young prince, a cousin to Louis Bonaparte, who was to become Emperor of the French ten years later. During this trip he promised the prince that he would write a novel with the island's name in the title. At that time the future emperor was imprisoned at"
"Editions aklas. Schopp had debated whether to complete the novel, and finally wrote the final two-and-a-half chapters. This section was printed in italic to distinguish it from Dumas' work. The novel, issued with a run of 2,000 copies, immediately became a bestseller in France, quickly selling 60,000 copies. In 2007 Pegasus Books in New York published an English translation entitled ""The Last Cavalier."" ""Le Salut de l'Empire,"" a sequel written by Schopp incorporating additional Dumas materials, was published in French in 2008. Similarly, in 2002 Reginald Hamel, a Canadian scholar, found Dumas' unpublished five-act play, ""The Gold Thieves,"" in the"
"Dumas (film) Dumas (original title: L'Autre Dumas) is a 2010 French film directed by Safy Nebbou about 19th-century French author Alexandre Dumas. In February 1848, Alexandre Dumas (Gérard Depardieu) is at the height of his fame. He has withdrawn for a few days into the immense Château de Monte-Cristo near Le Port-Marly, that he is building. There he works with his collaborator, Auguste Maquet (Benoît Poelvoorde). If the books bear Dumas' name, the tiring work undertaken by Maquet is colossal. Nevertheless, for ten years, Maquet has remained in the great man's shadow and never challenged his supremacy. When a quarrel"
"into France. After Marseille was annexed to France by Francois I in 1481, the Château d'if (1527–1529) was built on one of the islands of the Frioul Archipelago in the Bay of Marseille to protect the city from attacks from the sea. It was soon turned into a prison; During the Wars of Religion (1562–1598) it held some 3500 Huguenots, or French Protestant prisoners. It is best known as the prison of the fictional Count of Monte Cristo of Alexandre Dumas, père. The Chateau of Tarascon, in the Bouches-du-Rhône Department, was begun in 1400 by Louis II of Anjou, and"
"Biography. It is the biography of General Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, the mixed-race son of a French marquis and a Haitian slave, who became a swashbuckling swordsman in Paris and then a military hero of the French Revolutionary Wars, remaining the highest-ranking black military figure in a Western army until Gen. Colin Powell 200 years later. Dumas's rivalry with Napoleon caused him to leave the Egyptian campaign which Napoleon himself had already abandoned, and he was captured by enemy forces in Naples and thrown in a dungeon for two years. By the time he was released, Napoleon had risen to power and"
"box office in 1970 (9th place). In 1978 Khilkevich turned to Alexandre Dumas who happened to be one of his favourite writers since childhood. His 3-part made-for-TV adventure musical ""D'Artagnan and Three Musketeers"" was an ultimate success, with many songs and catchphrases becoming part of the popular culture. It was followed by three sequels in 1992, 1993 and 2009. In 1988 he made another Dumas adaptation – The Prisoner of Château d'If based on The Count of Monte Cristo novel. The screenplay was co-written by Mark Zakharov, while all the songs were written and performed by Alexander Gradsky. Among his"
"the novel. La Sanfelice La Sanfelice (or La San Felice) is an 1864 novel by the French writer Alexandre Dumas. It depicts the arrest and execution in Naples of Luisa Sanfelice, who was accused of conspiring with the French and their supporters against Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies during the French Revolutionary War. Lord Nelson and Lady Hamilton, who were in Naples at the time, also feature as characters. In 1942 the novel was used as the basis for the historical film ""Luisa Sanfelice"" directed by Leo Menardi. The 1968 film ""Emma Hamilton"" directed by Christian-Jaque was also loosely"
"a life with much resemblance to that of the Faria in the novel. As for Dantès, his fate is quite different from his model in Peuchet's book, since the latter is murdered by the ""Caderousse"" of the plot. But Dantès has ""alter egos"" in two other Dumas works; in ""Pauline"" from 1838, and more significantly in ""Georges"" from 1843, where a young man with black ancestry is preparing a revenge against white people who had humiliated him. On the day of his wedding to Mercédès, Edmond Dantès, first mate of the ""Pharaon"", is falsely accused of treason, arrested, and imprisoned"
"support of the National Library of France collections of ancient textiles, the accuracy of these notary documents discovered in 2015 has allowed the creation of the first virtual reconstruction of the prison of the man in the iron mask. The Man in the Iron Mask has also appeared in many works of fiction, most prominently in the late 1840s by Alexandre Dumas. A section of his novel """", the final installment of his D'Artagnan saga, features the Man in the Iron Mask. Here the prisoner is forced to wear an iron mask and is portrayed as Louis XIV's identical twin."
"unfinished at his death, was completed by scholar Claude Schopp and published in 2005. It was published in English in 2008 as ""The Last Cavalier."" Prolific in several genres, 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. In the 1840s, Dumas founded the Théâtre Historique in Paris. His father, General Thomas-Alexandre 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, a"
"of admirers, she becomes one of the most famous courtesans in Paris, attracting even Franz Liszt. Among many struck by her fame and charm is a young writer Alexandre Dumas, fils, son of the illustrious writer Alexandre Dumas, père. For a while he persuades her to stay with him in the country, in the hope it will assuage her tuberculosis and curb her wild spending. But she wants to go out as she has lived and, returning to her Parisian world, dies in 1847 at age 23, leaving behind massive debt. Alexandre turns her story into a novel, which is"
"exaggerated emotional identification with the historic figures he wrote about. In his introduction to the volume, Nerval elaborates on Dumas' analysis, describing how their old friend Charles Nodier once claimed he had been guillotined during the French Revolution. He discusses how writers and actors identify with their subjects. He also hints at a future volume describing his crises. Written in the form of twelve letters addressed to a periodical, ""Angélique"" recounts the author's travels through France and Germany in search of an antique book and his discovery of the diary of an historic Fille du Feu. The longest story in"