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Les crimes célèbres
The Complete Celebrated Crimes Collection
“History is but the nail on which the picture hangs" said Dumas and he applied his liberal approach to facts in this fascinating eight-volume series which covers in a sensational and vivid manner the most famous and scandalous crimes of the last six hundred years. Murder, poisonings, illicit love affairs, torture, incest, betrayals and revenge are all detailed in eighteen separate cases. We meet the scheming Borgias, beautiful and suffering Beatrice Cenci, bloodthirsty Ali Pasha, noble Joachim Murat and many more fascinating and highly embellished historical characters.
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Alexandre Dumas
7,031 books12.4k followersThis note regards Alexandre Dumas, père, the father of Alexandre Dumas, fils (son). For the son, see Alexandre Dumas fils.
Alexandre Dumas père, born Alexandre Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie, was a towering figure of 19th-century French literature whose historical novels and adventure tales earned global renown. Best known for The Three Musketeers, The Count of Monte Cristo, and other swashbuckling epics, Dumas crafted stories filled with daring heroes, dramatic twists, and vivid historical backdrops. His works, often serialized and immensely popular with the public, helped shape the modern adventure genre and remain enduring staples of world literature.
Dumas was the son of Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, a celebrated general in Revolutionary France and the highest-ranking man of African descent in a European army at the time. His father’s early death left the family in poverty, but Dumas’s upbringing was nonetheless marked by strong personal ambition and a deep admiration for his father’s achievements. He moved to Paris as a young man and began his literary career writing for the theatre, quickly rising to prominence in the Romantic movement with successful plays like Henri III et sa cour and Antony.
In the 1840s, Dumas turned increasingly toward prose fiction, particularly serialized novels, which reached vast audiences through French newspapers. His collaboration with Auguste Maquet, a skilled plotter and historian, proved fruitful. While Maquet drafted outlines and conducted research, Dumas infused the narratives with flair, dialogue, and color. The result was a string of literary triumphs, including The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo, both published in 1844. These novels exemplified Dumas’s flair for suspenseful pacing, memorable characters, and grand themes of justice, loyalty, and revenge.
The D’Artagnan Romances—The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After, and The Vicomte of Bragelonne—cemented his fame. They follow the adventures of the titular Gascon hero and his comrades Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, blending historical fact and fiction into richly imagined narratives. The Count of Monte Cristo offered a darker, more introspective tale of betrayal and retribution, with intricate plotting and a deeply philosophical core.
Dumas was also active in journalism and theater. He founded the Théâtre Historique in Paris, which staged dramatizations of his own novels. A prolific and energetic writer, he is estimated to have written or co-written over 100,000 pages of fiction, plays, memoirs, travel books, and essays. He also had a strong interest in food and published a massive culinary encyclopedia, Le Grand Dictionnaire de cuisine, filled with recipes, anecdotes, and reflections on gastronomy.
Despite his enormous success, Dumas was frequently plagued by financial troubles. He led a lavish lifestyle, building the ornate Château de Monte-Cristo near Paris, employing large staffs, and supporting many friends and relatives. His generosity and appetite for life often outpaced his income, leading to mounting debts. Still, his creative drive rarely waned.
Dumas’s mixed-race background was a source of both pride and tension in his life. He was outspoken about his heritage and used his platform to address race and injustice. In his novel Georges, he explored issues of colonialism and identity through a Creole protagonist. Though he encountered racism, he refused to be silenced, famously replying to a racial insult by pointing to his ancestry and achievements with dignity and wit.
Later in life, Dumas continued writing and traveling, spending time in Belgium, Italy, and Russia. He supported nationalist causes, particularly Italian unification, and even founded a newspaper to advocate for Giuseppe Garibaldi. Though his popularity waned somewhat in his final years, his literary legacy grew steadily. He wrote in a style that was accessible, entertaining, and emotionally reso
Alexandre Dumas père, born Alexandre Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie, was a towering figure of 19th-century French literature whose historical novels and adventure tales earned global renown. Best known for The Three Musketeers, The Count of Monte Cristo, and other swashbuckling epics, Dumas crafted stories filled with daring heroes, dramatic twists, and vivid historical backdrops. His works, often serialized and immensely popular with the public, helped shape the modern adventure genre and remain enduring staples of world literature.
Dumas was the son of Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, a celebrated general in Revolutionary France and the highest-ranking man of African descent in a European army at the time. His father’s early death left the family in poverty, but Dumas’s upbringing was nonetheless marked by strong personal ambition and a deep admiration for his father’s achievements. He moved to Paris as a young man and began his literary career writing for the theatre, quickly rising to prominence in the Romantic movement with successful plays like Henri III et sa cour and Antony.
In the 1840s, Dumas turned increasingly toward prose fiction, particularly serialized novels, which reached vast audiences through French newspapers. His collaboration with Auguste Maquet, a skilled plotter and historian, proved fruitful. While Maquet drafted outlines and conducted research, Dumas infused the narratives with flair, dialogue, and color. The result was a string of literary triumphs, including The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo, both published in 1844. These novels exemplified Dumas’s flair for suspenseful pacing, memorable characters, and grand themes of justice, loyalty, and revenge.
The D’Artagnan Romances—The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After, and The Vicomte of Bragelonne—cemented his fame. They follow the adventures of the titular Gascon hero and his comrades Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, blending historical fact and fiction into richly imagined narratives. The Count of Monte Cristo offered a darker, more introspective tale of betrayal and retribution, with intricate plotting and a deeply philosophical core.
Dumas was also active in journalism and theater. He founded the Théâtre Historique in Paris, which staged dramatizations of his own novels. A prolific and energetic writer, he is estimated to have written or co-written over 100,000 pages of fiction, plays, memoirs, travel books, and essays. He also had a strong interest in food and published a massive culinary encyclopedia, Le Grand Dictionnaire de cuisine, filled with recipes, anecdotes, and reflections on gastronomy.
Despite his enormous success, Dumas was frequently plagued by financial troubles. He led a lavish lifestyle, building the ornate Château de Monte-Cristo near Paris, employing large staffs, and supporting many friends and relatives. His generosity and appetite for life often outpaced his income, leading to mounting debts. Still, his creative drive rarely waned.
Dumas’s mixed-race background was a source of both pride and tension in his life. He was outspoken about his heritage and used his platform to address race and injustice. In his novel Georges, he explored issues of colonialism and identity through a Creole protagonist. Though he encountered racism, he refused to be silenced, famously replying to a racial insult by pointing to his ancestry and achievements with dignity and wit.
Later in life, Dumas continued writing and traveling, spending time in Belgium, Italy, and Russia. He supported nationalist causes, particularly Italian unification, and even founded a newspaper to advocate for Giuseppe Garibaldi. Though his popularity waned somewhat in his final years, his literary legacy grew steadily. He wrote in a style that was accessible, entertaining, and emotionally reso
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February 1, 2013Gutenberg link to the text here. (Text in Kindle version may be centered, or it could just be me. Also the letter "a" seems to replace the letter "o" a lot. But hey, it's free, I accept flaws.)
This book is Dumas' retelling of historical and (in)famous crimes. Think of this as True Crime History, because the love for tabloidy crime stories isn't new - and like the tabloids much of this probably shouldn't be thought of as fact or unbiased. This was originally an eight volume work, but here is combined into a single book (and much easier to manage that way!). Specifically, here are the various topics in order that the book covers them (with wikipedia links for those who want some immediate history gratification):
[will be filling in some links as I read, some of these may be my guesses before reading til I correct them]
The Borgias (mainly the family of Pope Alexander VI)
The Cenci - 1598 (Beatrice Cenci)
Massacres Of The South - 1551-1815 (French Wars of Religion)
Mary Stuart - 1587 (Mary Queen of Scots)
Karl Ludwig Sand - 1819 (wikipedia)
Urbain Grandier - 1634 (wikipedia)
Nisida - 1825 (wikipedia?)
Derues
La Constantin - 1660
Joan Of Naples - 1343-1382 (Joanna I of Naples?)
The Man In The Iron Mask [An Essay] (wikipedia)
Martin Guerre (wikipedia)
Ali Pacha
The Countess De Saint-Geran - 1639
Murat - 1815
The Marquise De Brinvilliers (Madame de Brinvilliers)
Vaninka
The Marquise De Ganges - 1657
[As always, when this is on the Currently Reading shelf (or the Still Writing Review shelf) I'm not done and will continue adding bits to this review. Also I may start off saying something about a book and then change my mind before I get to the end - and then I'll edit this. So until I remove this blurb take none of this as final!]
Note: if you're only interested in a part of this, check out the names of the individual volumes and then search for ebooks that way. Many are available as separate books.
Chapter 3, Massacres Of The South
It seems a problem that many of the people Dumas cites as historical figures in this chapter/book are ones I can't seem to find any further information on: Maurice Secenat (missionary from Cevennes, burned at stake), Pierre de Lavau (hanged), Dominique Deyron (doctor of theology, converted by de Lavau, escaped hanging). This may be due to spellings of the names, or the lack of French history documents being easily googlable in English? Maybe? Add these names to the list: Captain Bouillargues, Guillaume Moget, Bishop Bernard d'Elbene, Guillaume Calviere, etc. At this point I gave up making notes. Try googling any of those and you'll just find links to Dumas' book.
There was a reference to St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre (1572):
Quotes to ponder:
Borgia section, Chapter 8:
10% in, still with the Borgias - So Caesar (Pope Borgia's son) has his soldiers kidnap a young woman who'd caught his eye, and who just happens to be the fiance of Gian Carracciuola, general of the Venetians. And although there's a huge resulting kerfuffle over her kidnapping no one can find her, and even the house that witnesses said she was taken to disappears. As in, the entire house is gone. And the girl isn't found for months. That's the set up - here's the conclusion:
This book is Dumas' retelling of historical and (in)famous crimes. Think of this as True Crime History, because the love for tabloidy crime stories isn't new - and like the tabloids much of this probably shouldn't be thought of as fact or unbiased. This was originally an eight volume work, but here is combined into a single book (and much easier to manage that way!). Specifically, here are the various topics in order that the book covers them (with wikipedia links for those who want some immediate history gratification):
[will be filling in some links as I read, some of these may be my guesses before reading til I correct them]
The Borgias (mainly the family of Pope Alexander VI)
The Cenci - 1598 (Beatrice Cenci)
Massacres Of The South - 1551-1815 (French Wars of Religion)
Mary Stuart - 1587 (Mary Queen of Scots)
Karl Ludwig Sand - 1819 (wikipedia)
Urbain Grandier - 1634 (wikipedia)
Nisida - 1825 (wikipedia?)
Derues
La Constantin - 1660
Joan Of Naples - 1343-1382 (Joanna I of Naples?)
The Man In The Iron Mask [An Essay] (wikipedia)
Martin Guerre (wikipedia)
Ali Pacha
The Countess De Saint-Geran - 1639
Murat - 1815
The Marquise De Brinvilliers (Madame de Brinvilliers)
Vaninka
The Marquise De Ganges - 1657
[As always, when this is on the Currently Reading shelf (or the Still Writing Review shelf) I'm not done and will continue adding bits to this review. Also I may start off saying something about a book and then change my mind before I get to the end - and then I'll edit this. So until I remove this blurb take none of this as final!]
Note: if you're only interested in a part of this, check out the names of the individual volumes and then search for ebooks that way. Many are available as separate books.
Chapter 3, Massacres Of The South
It seems a problem that many of the people Dumas cites as historical figures in this chapter/book are ones I can't seem to find any further information on: Maurice Secenat (missionary from Cevennes, burned at stake), Pierre de Lavau (hanged), Dominique Deyron (doctor of theology, converted by de Lavau, escaped hanging). This may be due to spellings of the names, or the lack of French history documents being easily googlable in English? Maybe? Add these names to the list: Captain Bouillargues, Guillaume Moget, Bishop Bernard d'Elbene, Guillaume Calviere, etc. At this point I gave up making notes. Try googling any of those and you'll just find links to Dumas' book.
There was a reference to St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre (1572):
"He [King Charles IX] then left for Paris, where a short time after he concluded a treaty with the Calvinists, which the people with its gift of prophecy called "The halting peace of unsure seat," and which in the end led to the massacre of St. Bartholomew."
Quotes to ponder:
Borgia section, Chapter 8:
"...The Archbishop of Cosenza knew the men he was dealing with; he knew that to save their own ends they would hesitate at nothing; he knew they had a poison like sugar to the taste and to the smell, impossible to discover in food—a poison that would kill slowly or quickly as the poisoner willed and would leave no trace behind; he knew the secret of the poisoned key that lay always on the pope's mantelpiece, so that when His Holiness wished to destroy some one of his intimates, he bade him open a certain cupboard: on the handle of the key there was a little spike, and as the lock of the cupboard turned stiffly the hand would naturally press, the lock would yield, and nothing would have come of it but a trifling scratch: the scratch was mortal. He knew, too, that Caesar wore a ring made like two lions' heads, and that he would turn the stone on the inside when he was shaking hands with a friend. Then the lions' teeth became the teeth of a viper, and the friend died cursing Borgia."
10% in, still with the Borgias - So Caesar (Pope Borgia's son) has his soldiers kidnap a young woman who'd caught his eye, and who just happens to be the fiance of Gian Carracciuola, general of the Venetians. And although there's a huge resulting kerfuffle over her kidnapping no one can find her, and even the house that witnesses said she was taken to disappears. As in, the entire house is gone. And the girl isn't found for months. That's the set up - here's the conclusion:
"...The conditions were faithfully kept so far as the inhabitants were concerned; but Caesar, when he had seen Astor, whom he did not know before, was seized by a strange passion for this beautiful youth, who was like a woman: he kept him by his side in his own army, showing him honours befitting a young prince, and evincing before the eyes of all the strongest affection for him: one day Astor disappeared, just as Caracciuolo's bride had disappeared, and no one knew what had become of him; Caesar himself appeared very uneasy, saying that he had no doubt made his escape somewhere, and in order to give credence to this story, he sent out couriers to seek him in all directions.
A year after this double disappearance, there was picked up in the Tiber, a little below the Castle Sant' Angelo, the body of a beautiful young woman, her hands bound together behind her back, and also the corpse of a handsome youth with the bowstring he had been strangled with tied round his neck. The girl was Caracciuolo's bride, the young man was Astor.
During the last year both had been the slaves of Caesar's pleasures; now, tired of them, he had had them thrown into the Tiber."
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June 23, 2013I tried...I really tried but this book gives the impression of something that is written for people who already know about the cases anyway. I got completely lost because Dumas mentioned so many people and I simply couldn't remember them all and so it all ended up being incredibly confusing, even the part on the Borgias (now I know the TV-series isn't the most historical accurate portrayal but having watched it meant that I knew at least some of the names of people involved but I still didn't know what was going on most of the time).
August 17, 2017
Ok, that was typical Dumas! As this book about real people who commit real crimes, I expected more historical details checked from different sources, I expected analysis and less romanticism. In fact, those stories are only based on real life, they have more from myths and fairy tales rather than from historical documents. Although it was easy reading, I would not keep book like that in my library.
February 26, 2013
All my reviews are in English (English title: Famous Murders).
Describes several different murders and how they unfolded and what brought the people to commit the murders. This is not a detective story, everything is explained as it is unfolding, but how the murderer got caught is also explained.
Not very insightful, but does explore the darker aspect of human character.
Describes several different murders and how they unfolded and what brought the people to commit the murders. This is not a detective story, everything is explained as it is unfolding, but how the murderer got caught is also explained.
Not very insightful, but does explore the darker aspect of human character.
January 6, 2012
An often-exciting record of vintage crime, this tome is in the public domain, with a free electronic copy available here.
January 13, 2013
Turgid. If you're reading it for information, there are better sources. It's only really of interest as part of a study of Dumas or of French history - not so much in the sense of it being about France, but how the French viewed others at the time.
March 15, 2016
Finally!!!! It took me 3 years to finish it. I can't believe how much 'water' there is in this
book!! Seriously, it could be 3 times shorter and that would only make it so much better!
Boring, boring, boring!
book!! Seriously, it could be 3 times shorter and that would only make it so much better!
Boring, boring, boring!
October 30, 2013
I just couldn't get through pages and pages of what uniforms soldiers were wearing, the routes they took, etc. That was only the first story of a 1300+ page book.
April 3, 2025
Bản dịch là Những Tội Ác Trứ Danh. Tuy nhiên bản Việt chỉ mới dịch 1 phần nhỏ gồm 6 câu chuyện trên 18 chuyện cả thảy.
January 9, 2026
Ở ác gặp ác, cái lẽ này chẳng phải đã quá quen hay sao?
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September 14, 2020Hi all
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Dumas translated still sings a purer song than many writers . Even while he applies his skill to some ; most abhorrent, appalling incidents that occured in medieval Europe through to the early Victorian era.
these volumes are proofs presented as clear ,un-trauduced facts . Dumas illustrates the face of man recalling some of the unspeakable torture which existed prior to the 20th C.'s even worse horrors.
Each volume of the 8 sparkles with the sun of indignation shining on mean acts inflicted on weak victims , innocent destroyed through diabolical efforts, at times cunning and strenuous, built from complex plans for which the cruel have taken great pains and used much thought to prepare the fate of their victims . Though at times the crimes are spontaneous , opportunistic . IN either case they' re revelatory : they show the wild unconstrained minds of their creators.
The first 6 of these illustrious volumes engross , and disturb the mind to a great extent.
You may find that you need days of rest in which to digest each volume .before you eagerly seize the next one.
All are true tales, Dumas states, and he takes quite a lot of effort to prove their veracity .
The seventh , If memory serves; shows the evil acts of women ( two ); Fittingly commensurate with our current concerns over equality of the sexes .
And for racial diversion , we have the tale of one ALI , who indulges in crimes at least equal to those of Europeans . Begun on a small mountaintop in the forests of Bosnia among his mountaineer neighbours. Often the criminal motive is vengeance for slights ,or because lust , avarice , power and liberty were checked by an unsuspecting party. Most of the victims could not conceive the will and wish of their murderer; or when they can , as In the case of a young Idealistic German boy , they develop elaborate rituals of forgiveness , steeped often in mystic tears.
The last volume concerns the civil war in southern France during the 1600's .( Before and ending with Louis Quatorze) , then , Languedoc was a protestant ( Hugonaut) haven .
Dumas never shies way from depicting the sheer deep hypocrisy on every side. One quality of being an : 'annalist', as he titles himself in this role; is preserving memory, it is also to refresh our minds with historical truth that is voided to often by passions that obscure them .
All of the crimes committed are done to the blindness of those around ,often bystanders or find pleasure in the suffering inflicted by the criminals or against the criminals once they are caught Dumas stands outside and aloof . He is successful in conveying perspective as a wise , fair observer .
In the spirit of Baudelaire , Dumas shows us how one role that writers take on is solely exposing and defrocking , stripping layers of acculturated self delusion away. How common it is among humans that they believe themselves to be kind, moral (pious)and good , while maintaining how only the other is responsible for pain , how only others deserve to suffer , not one's own self .
But, this is the human conflict that revolves around our brains. The writer of fiction , be it historical or otherwise ,holds fast to expose our lives for what they are .
Volume 's 7 & 8; came across as somewhat less intriguing. This, I put down to the translator having grown careless and tired; or maybe Dumas himself was worn out with his theme.
Yet even the last two volumes are replete wit humanity, as they reflect our history.
_____
Dumas translated still sings a purer song than many writers . Even while he applies his skill to some ; most abhorrent, appalling incidents that occured in medieval Europe through to the early Victorian era.
these volumes are proofs presented as clear ,un-trauduced facts . Dumas illustrates the face of man recalling some of the unspeakable torture which existed prior to the 20th C.'s even worse horrors.
Each volume of the 8 sparkles with the sun of indignation shining on mean acts inflicted on weak victims , innocent destroyed through diabolical efforts, at times cunning and strenuous, built from complex plans for which the cruel have taken great pains and used much thought to prepare the fate of their victims . Though at times the crimes are spontaneous , opportunistic . IN either case they' re revelatory : they show the wild unconstrained minds of their creators.
The first 6 of these illustrious volumes engross , and disturb the mind to a great extent.
You may find that you need days of rest in which to digest each volume .before you eagerly seize the next one.
All are true tales, Dumas states, and he takes quite a lot of effort to prove their veracity .
The seventh , If memory serves; shows the evil acts of women ( two ); Fittingly commensurate with our current concerns over equality of the sexes .
And for racial diversion , we have the tale of one ALI , who indulges in crimes at least equal to those of Europeans . Begun on a small mountaintop in the forests of Bosnia among his mountaineer neighbours. Often the criminal motive is vengeance for slights ,or because lust , avarice , power and liberty were checked by an unsuspecting party. Most of the victims could not conceive the will and wish of their murderer; or when they can , as In the case of a young Idealistic German boy , they develop elaborate rituals of forgiveness , steeped often in mystic tears.
The last volume concerns the civil war in southern France during the 1600's .( Before and ending with Louis Quatorze) , then , Languedoc was a protestant ( Hugonaut) haven .
Dumas never shies way from depicting the sheer deep hypocrisy on every side. One quality of being an : 'annalist', as he titles himself in this role; is preserving memory, it is also to refresh our minds with historical truth that is voided to often by passions that obscure them .
All of the crimes committed are done to the blindness of those around ,often bystanders or find pleasure in the suffering inflicted by the criminals or against the criminals once they are caught Dumas stands outside and aloof . He is successful in conveying perspective as a wise , fair observer .
In the spirit of Baudelaire , Dumas shows us how one role that writers take on is solely exposing and defrocking , stripping layers of acculturated self delusion away. How common it is among humans that they believe themselves to be kind, moral (pious)and good , while maintaining how only the other is responsible for pain , how only others deserve to suffer , not one's own self .
But, this is the human conflict that revolves around our brains. The writer of fiction , be it historical or otherwise ,holds fast to expose our lives for what they are .
Volume 's 7 & 8; came across as somewhat less intriguing. This, I put down to the translator having grown careless and tired; or maybe Dumas himself was worn out with his theme.
Yet even the last two volumes are replete wit humanity, as they reflect our history.
January 27, 2013
This is a book that is very hard to put down because it is quite thrilling; however, there are many parts where Alexander Dumas' use of extravagant, complicated language renders the reader confused. The book is about crimes and how they were conducted and what the motives of those crimes were. The stand out thing about this book is the details Alexander Dumas gets into. No spec of information is left unsaid and Dumas does a great job of painting clear pictures in the readers' heads.
Having said that, I will be switching to another book because of the levels of complex language found in this book.
Having said that, I will be switching to another book because of the levels of complex language found in this book.
May 10, 2017
Fascinating read and a good book to finish Dumas 'Celebrated Crimes' series. Unlike many of his other Celebrated Crimes, this book took the form of a story rather than factual information throughout. I found it gave an interesting view of the psychological make up of what is seen to be and similar to a modern day serial killer.
July 10, 2019
Engaging topics pursued
And pursued and pursued and pursued....
The nature of each story I read was well established. But then the supposed contortions of the medieval actors, in pursuing a presumed objective, I found to be tedious and not worth trying to follow. I gave up before the end. Perhaps others may disagree.
And pursued and pursued and pursued....
The nature of each story I read was well established. But then the supposed contortions of the medieval actors, in pursuing a presumed objective, I found to be tedious and not worth trying to follow. I gave up before the end. Perhaps others may disagree.
May 24, 2016
Hardest book to swallow, it took me literally months to finish and the stories weren't even that good. Total disappointment!
Totally heartbreaking that the author of my favorite book writes this boring...
Totally heartbreaking that the author of my favorite book writes this boring...
February 27, 2022
I am a huge fan of Dumas. I have been drawn towards his nonfiction after devouring his fiction. These crimes are well chosen for their heinous natures. Dumas has a knack for peering through the veneer of reputation and into the soul of interesting characters, real and imagined.
March 14, 2009
Повесть о Дёрю спасает читателя от (почти) беспробудной скуки.
И не надо про то, что тогда так писали.
И не надо про то, что тогда так писали.
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May 23, 2012So far quite good.
April 3, 2015
أول رواية أقراها لألكساندر دوماس، و إن شاء الله تكون الأخيرة.
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April 20, 2015Valdemar #7
Por lo menos:
Por Alexandre Dumas
Los Cenci
La Marquesa de Brinvilliers
Urbano Grandier
Vaninka
Por lo menos:
Por Alexandre Dumas
Los Cenci
La Marquesa de Brinvilliers
Urbano Grandier
Vaninka
abandoned
February 4, 2016yup. I just can't follow it right now.
March 15, 2018
A very dry book.
October 22, 2018
Dumas writes very good stories. These stories of crime are a treasure of crime literature and Dumas does the crime genre justice.
March 20, 2019
Too many typos
I was looking forward to reading this book, but the typos on every single page made that impossible. It needs to be proofread
I was looking forward to reading this book, but the typos on every single page made that impossible. It needs to be proofread
January 26, 2020
A little history research. Interesting material, the writing is hard to listen and follow due to the era.
August 14, 2020
One of the most boring, uninteresting, overly puffed up books I've ever read.
November 30, 2022
A story of the crimes committed by Catholics and Protestants in France.
July 31, 2025
♫ Cell-e-brate good times, come on ... ♪
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