![]() ![]() He has published on French authors from the Renaissance to the twentieth century and is coeditor of the journal Contemporary French & Francophone Studies/SITES. Roger Celestin is a professor of French and comparative literature at the University of Connecticut. Dumas made and lost several fortunes, and died penniless on December 5, 1870. His most popular works are The Three Musketeers (1844), The Count of Monte Cristo (1844-45), and The Man in the Iron Mask (1848-50). ![]() Dumas is most famous for his brilliant historical novels, which he wrote with collaborators, mainly Auguste Maquet, and which were serialized in the popular press of the day. The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. A prolific author, Dumas was also an adventurer and took part in the Revolution of 1830. Dumas began writing at an early age and saw his first success in a play he wrote entitled Henri III et sa Cour (1829). Alexandre Dumas was born July 24, 1802, at Villiers-Cotterets, France, the son of Napoleon's famous mulatto general, Thomas-Alexandre Davy de la Pailleterie. ![]()
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