Alexandre Dumas
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Alexandre Dumas, also known as Alexandre Dumas père, was a French novelist and playwright.
A portrait of Dumas by the French photographer Nadar in 1855
General Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, father of Alexandre Dumas
Alexandre Dumas, engraving by Antoine Maurin
The Château de Monte-Cristo in Le Port-Marly
Thomas-Alexandre Dumas
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Divisional-General Thomas-Alexandre Dumas was a French Army officer who served in the French Revolutionary Wars. Along with fellow French officers Joseph Serrant and Toussaint Louverture, Abram Petrov
Alexandre Dumas
…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 Dumas, né 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…
Portrait by Guillaume Guillon-Lethière, c. 1797
Statue of General Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, melted down following a 1941 decision of the Nazi occupation authorities
The Champ de Mars massacre, at which Dumas was present