Alexandre Dumas-fils

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July 27, 1824 in Paris, France

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November 27, 1895

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Dumas was born in Paris, France, the illegitimate child of Marie-Laure-Catherine Labay (1794-1868), a dressmaker, and novelist Alexandre Dumas. During 1831 his father legally recognized him and ensured that the young Dumas received the best education possible at the Institution Goubaux and the Collège Bourbon. At that time, the law allowed the elder Dumas to take the child away from his mother. Her agony inspired Dumas fils to write about tragic female characters. In almost all of his writings, he emphasized the moral purpose of literature and in his play The Illegitimate Son (1858) he espoused the belief that if a man fathers an illegitimate child then he has an obligation to legitimize the child and marry the woman.

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Dumas was born in Paris, France, the illegitimate child of Marie-Laure-Catherine Labay (1794-1868), a dressmaker, and novelist Alexandre Dumas. During 1831 his father legally recognized him and ensured that the young Dumas received the best education possible at the Institution Goubaux and the Collège Bourbon. At that time, the law allowed the elder Dumas to take the child away from his mother. Her agony inspired Dumas fils to write about tragic female characters. In almost all of his writings, he emphasized the moral purpose of literature and in his play The Illegitimate Son (1858) he espoused the belief that if a man fathers an illegitimate child then he has an obligation to legitimize the child and marry the woman.

Dumas' paternal great-grandparents were a French nobleman and a Haitian woman. In boarding schools, Dumas fils was constantly taunted by his classmates. These issues all profoundly influenced his thoughts, behaviour, and writing.

During 1844 Dumas moved to Saint-Germain-en-Laye to live with his father. There, he met Marie Duplessis, a young courtesan who would be the inspiration for his romantic novel The Lady of the Camellias. Adapted into a play, it was titled in English (especially in the United States) as Camille and is the basis for Verdi's 1853 opera, La Traviata. Although he admitted that he had done the adaptation because he needed the money, he had a great success with the play. Thus began the career of Dumas fils as a dramatist, which was not only more renowned than that of his father during his lifetime but also dominated the serious French stage for most of the second half of the 19th century. After this, he virtually abandoned writing novels (though his semi-autobiographical L'Affaire Clemenceau (1867) achieved some success).

On 31 December 1864, Dumas married Nadjeschda von Knorring (1826 – April 1895), daughter of Johan Reinhold von Knorring and wife, and widow of Alexander, Prince Naryschkine, whom he married at Moscow and with whom he had two daughters: Marie-Alexandrine-Henriette Dumas, born 20 November 1860, who married Maurice Lippmann and was the mother of Serge Napoléon Lippmann (1886–1975) and Auguste Alexandre Lippmann (1881–1960); and Jeanine Dumas (3 May 1867–), who married Ernest d' Hauterive (1864–1957), son of George Lecourt d' Hauterive and wife (married in 1861) Léontine de Leusse. After Naryschkine's death, he married in June 1895 Henriette Régnier de La Brière (1851–1934), without issue.

During 1874, he was admitted to the Académie française and in 1894 he was awarded the Légion d'honneur.

Alexandre Dumas fils died at Marly-le-Roi, Yvelines, on November 27, 1895 and was interred in the Cimetière de Montmartre in Paris. His grave is, perhaps coincidentally, only some 100 metres away from that of Marie Duplessis.

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	La Dame aux Camélias by Alexandre Dumas-fils, David Coward (Editor) 3.82 avg rating — 3,790 ratings — published 1848 — 241 editions	My rating:
	Camille: A Play in Five Acts (1857) by Alexandre Dumas-fils, Matilda Heron (Translator) 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings	My rating:
	The Son of Clemenceau 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2001 — 18 editions	My rating:
	Suplício de uma mulher by Alexandre Dumas-fils, Machado de Assis (Translator) 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2010	My rating:
	Obras Completas de Alejandro Dumas 3 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2011	My rating:
	La Princesse Georges 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Le Docteur Servans, Et La Jeunesse de Louis XIV (1856) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2010	My rating:
	Th�atre Complet de Al. Dumas Fils 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Discours de Reception by Alexandre Dumas-fils, L'acad mie fran aise 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2010	My rating:
	La princesse de Bagdad: pi 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:

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“Women sometimes allow you to be unfaithful to their love; they never allow you to wound their self-esteem.”
― Alexandre Dumas-fils, La Dame aux Camélias

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“No matter how long I live, I shall live longer than you will love me”
― Alexandre Dumas-fils, Camille

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“All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.”
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