Alexandre Dumas, pere
Born	Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie ( 1802-07-24 ) 24 July 1802 Villers-Cotterets , Aisne, France
Died	5 December 1870 (1870-12-05) (aged 68) Puys (near Dieppe ), Seine-Maritime , France
Occupation	playwright and novelist
Nationality	French
Period	1829?1869
Literary movement	Romanticism and Historical fiction
Notable works	The Count of Monte Cristo The Three Musketeers
Relatives	Thomas-Alexandre Dumas (father) Alexandre Dumas, fils (son)
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Alexandre Dumas (born 24 July, 1802 at Villers-Cotterets , died 5 December 1870 at Dieppe ) was a French writer of Haitian descent. He is famous for writing The Three Musketeers (1844), Queen Margot , The Count of Monte Cristo (1844-1845) and about the Man with the iron mask .

Dumas's father was a general, who fought in the French Revolution . When his father died, his mother raised him. They didn't have much money when he was growing up. ^[1]

Dumas wrote his first plays in 1825 and 1826 after reading Shakespeare , Sir Walter Scott , Friedrich von Scholler and Lord Byron .

Dumas was also a gourmand (lover of food), and wrote Le Grand Dictionnaire de cuisine, an encyclopædia of food and cooking with 1152 pages. ^[2] He finished it weeks before his death. It is not thought very reliable, because it relies on Dumas' opinions rather than fact. ^[2]

Dumas was a member of the Club des Hashischins , or Hashish Club. The group of French writers experimented with hashish to get ideas. ^[3]

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• Alexandre Dumas, fils , son of this writer

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• Gorman, Herbert (1929). The Incredible Marquis, Alexandre Dumas . New York: Farrar & Rinehart. OCLC   1370481 .
• Hemmings, F.W.J. (1979). Alexandre Dumas, the King of Romance . New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. ISBN   0-684-16391-8 .
• Lucas-Dubreton, Jean (1928). The Fourth Musketeer . trans. by Maida Castelhun Darnton. New York: Coward-McCann. OCLC   230139 . Archived from the original on 2012-02-24 . Retrieved 2013-03-04 .
• Maurois, Andre (1957). The Titans, a Three-Generation Biography of the Dumas . trans. by Gerard Hopkins. New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers. OCLC   260126 .
• Reed, F. W. (Frank Wild) (1933). A Bibliography of Alexandre Dumas, pere . Pinner Hill, Middlesex: J.A. Neuhuys. OCLC   1420223 .
• Ross, Michael (1981). Alexandre Dumas . Newton Abbot, London, North Pomfret (Vt): David & Charles. ISBN   0-7153-7758-2 .
• Schopp, Claude (1988). Alexandre Dumas, Genius of Life . trans. by A. J. Koch. New York, Toronto: Franklin Watts. ISBN   0-531-15093-3 .
• Spurr, Harry A. (October 1902). The Life and Writings of Alexandre Dumas . New York: Frederick A. Stokes, Company. OCLC   2999945 .

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