| Author Info | - Alexandre Dumas was born in July 1802, in Villers-Cotterêt, Aisne, France, as Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie. He is one of the most well-known French playwrights and novelists, best remembered for The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers. The Count of Monte Cristo, completed in 1844, was originally serialised in eighteen parts in the Journal des Débats.
He made his own literary debut at the stage at Comédie-Française with plays like Henry III and His Court (1829), Byronic Antony (1831), The Tower of Nesle (1832), and Kean (1836).
Alexandre Dumas died in December 1870, at Puys, near Dieppe, France. He was buried in the cemetery in Villers-Cotterêt. In the year 2002, however, his remains were shifted to the Pantheon in Paris where he now rests with other French luminaries like Victor Hugo, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Voltaire, and Ãmile Zola.
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