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Alexandre Dumas was born in 1802 in the family of General Thomas-Alexandre Dumas and Marie-Louise Labur, daughter of the owner of the hotel in Villers-Cotterets. Dumas was considered quadroon since his paternal grandmother was a black slave from the island of Haiti.
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time of the writer's life
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Twenty-year Alexander, who had no education (his only asset was a beautiful handwriting), given the position of the Palais Royal (Paris) in the office when the Duke of Orleans, who helped get the general Foy. Dumas began to replenish their education.
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Dumas, who had to have a mother and an illegitimate son Alexander, wrote a piece on the new topic. Drama "Henry III and his court" has been created in two months.
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In France there was the July Revolution which overthrew Charles X and adopt the bourgeois kingdom
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"Anthony" - a play in five acts, which was written by Alexander Dumas. It was first published and performed in the theater "Port St. Martin" May 8, 1831. Dumas himself at the same time asserted that "Anthony - not drama, not a tragedy, and the scene of love, jealousy and anger."
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General Lamarck was buried in Paris. Dumas was personally acquainted with him, so at the request of relatives of the late General, he led a column Gunners, followed the funeral hearse. Soon the police began to disperse the crowd, but there was something to be expected: a funeral procession was the beginning of a revolutionary uprising.
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On the advice of friends, Dumas left France and went to Switzerland, where he lived for several months in preparation for the publication of his first historical-journalistic essay "Gaul and France"
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In 1840 he married the actress Ida Ferrier, but continued communication with many other women.
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The couple actually separated in 1844, but the divorce has not been issued.
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In disgrace after the coup in 1851, he fled to Brussels (Belgium) from creditors, where he began to write "Memoirs", which by their artistic value are not inferior to his best fictional writings
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He has visited St. Petersburg, Karelia attractions, the island of Valaam, Uglich, Moscow Tsaritsyn [5], Astrakhan, the Caucasus.
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He has wrote a book "Travel impressions. In Russia"
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He died in the house of his son after the blows that overtook him. His works have been translated into many languages and served as material for numerous theatrical productions and films.
