Dumas, Alexandre père

Dumas, Alexandre père (24 July 1802, Villers-Cotterets; 6 December 1870, Dieppe), writer, was the son of a general in the army of the French republic and the grandson of a negress. His single purpose in life was to earn large sums of money with his pen, and he set about doing this by composing an awesome array of historical novels and an almost endless series of historical dramas and plays dealing with the modern scene. He came to the attention of the public at large with the staging of his…