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 * 1) __**Alexandre Dumas**__**: How alexandre dumas's writings exspanded over the years**
 * 1) Wrote plays for the theatre Henry 3 and his court
 * 2) 'Christine" was equally popular
 * 3) These plays mad it possible for him to be a writer as a full time writer
 * 4) 1838 he wrote the play that madde his first serial novel
 * 5) more than 150 years ago he wrote "the three musketeers"
 * 6) the book was set in the 17th century
 * 7) february 1 1840 he got married
 * 8) was first famouse for his dramas
 * 9) he wrote journal articles on politics and culture and books on French history
 * 10) in 1819 Dumas meets Adolphe de Leuven with who he will write his first literay works
 * 11) 1846 he publishes Le Batard de Mauleon, Joseph Balsamo, Une Fille du Regent
 * 12) 1850 Dumas is prosecuted for his debts
 * 13) 1856 Publication of [|Les Compagnons de Jéhu]
 * 14) Through the years some works were published in several printings and translations under different titles
 * 15) Dumas' plots were inspired by his father's wild adventures.
 * 16) In 1850 Dumas published //The Black Tulip//, a romantic adventure
 * 17) Dumas was an omnivorous reader.
 * 18) His first produced drama was LA CHASSE ET L'AMOUR
 * 19) It opened on September 22, 1835
 * 20) The chatacters of the three musketeers have inspired many filmmakers
 * 1) French author of plays, popular romances, and historical novels
 * 2) was a dramatist and novelist
 * 3) It seemed to the theatergoers of Dumas's time that here at last was serious theater which presented an alternative to effete neoclassical drama.
 * 4) in 1830 The Revolution temporarily diverted Dumas from his writing
 * 5) Alexandre Dumas was born in Villes-Cotterêts
 * 6) his works were popular among the 19th-century African-Amer
 * 7) Dumas' central works created a romantic fictional history of France
 * 8) but also had supernatural elements and characters
 * 9) Dumas developed character traits, and kept the action moving in his stories
 * 10) **Birthplace** Villers-Cotterets, France
 * 11) "All for one, one for all, that is our device." (three musketters)
 * 12) Dumas meets Adolphe de Leuven with whom he will write his first literay works
 * 13) Dumas was a clerk for a sollicitor befor becoming a writer
 * 14) his mother was a dress maker
 * 15) Dumas was admitted to the company francaise in 1874
 * 16) Dumas did not write his novels alone
 * 17) He had several assistants who helped him with research
 * 18) Some even outlined the plots of his novels for him and wrote early drafts
 * 19) Dumas was often in debt due to spending so much on his mistresses
 * 20) he had at least four illegitimate children
 * 1) Dumas was brought up by his mother
 * 2) He was born 24 July 1802
 * 3) He was born in the village of Villers-Cotterêts
 * 4) He died 5 December 1870
 * 5) Dumas was born in Paris
 * 6) Dumas' writing earned him a great deal of money
 * 7) Dumas was not looked upon favorably by the newly elected President
 * 8) In 1851 Dumas fled to [|Brussels]
 * 9) In June 2005 Dumas' recently-discovered last novel
 * 10) Alexandre Dumas was born in Villes-Cotterêts, France
 * 11) Dumas made his breakthrough with HENRI III ET SA COUR
 * 12) Dumas earned fortunes and spent them right away on friends, art, and mistresses
 * 13) Died of a stroke
 * 14) Dumas grew up in a poor family
 * 15) French novelist and dramatist
 * 16) His father twas a generalinthe revolution
 * 17) At the age of 20 he obtained a minor post with the duc d'Orléans in Paris
 * 18) he was active in the Revolution of 1830
 * 19) His first successes were the historical dramas
 * 20) He was interested in Italian unification
 * 1) was a part in Garibaldi's expedition in 1860.
 * 2) The Count of 3 is often considered, along with Three Musketeers, as Dumas's most popular work's
 * 3) It is claimed that his last words were: "I shall never know how it all comes out now,"
 * 4) He wrote several children's stories, and a culinary dictionary
 * 5) He started several magazines and wrote in them weekly
 * 6) did not shy away from collaborating with others or rewriting older stories
 * 7) he was married to actress
 * 8) known as ‘Dumas //père//’
 * 9) He produced Shakespearian plays
 * 10) whose special effects satisfied the popular demand for elaborate stage productions
 * 11) adventure stories that abound with swordfights, lavish costumes, beautiful women, and narrow escapes
 * 12) Dumas set out to produce a vast body of fiction
 * 13) in 1844 he had a string of brilliantly successful books
 * 14) he was almost as famous for his reckless spending and lavish lifestyle
 * 15) In his last days he was supported by his illegitimate son
 * 16) Alexandre Dumas was one-quarter black
 * 17) his grandfather had married a slave while serving as a government official in Haiti
 * 18) birthday july 27
 * 19) his son was also know as dumas pere
 * 20) had several affaris