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On July 24, 1802 Alexandre Dumas was born. He was born in France and took the last name of his grandmother "Dumas".
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In 1822 Alexandre Dumas moved to Paris to work the duc d'Orléans as a scribe.
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In 1830 he began writing plays, mostly comeides and dramas.
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In 1840, Dumas married actress Ida Ferrier, but continued his affairs with other women.
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In 1844 Alexandre Dumas gained fame for his novel "The Count Of Monte Cristo" and other titles such as "The Three Musketeers" and "The Wolf Leader".
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In 1851 Alexandre Dumas fled to Belgium to flee debt. He acquired his debt when he bought a house, the "Château de Monte Cristo", and wrote novels there.
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Dumas died on December 5, 1870, at his son's home in Puys, France. He was buried in the cemetery of Villers-Cotterêts. In 2002, his body was moved to the Panthéon in Paris, where Dumas rests among such other French literary greats like his rival Victor Hugo, Émile Zola and Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
