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Alexandre Dumas fils (French: [alɛksɑ̃dʁ dymɑ fis]; 27 July 1824 – 27 November 1895) was a French author and playwright, best known for the romantic novel La Dame aux Camélias (The Lady of the Camellias), published in 1848, which was adapted into Giuseppe Verdi's 1853 opera La traviata (The Fallen Woman), as well as numerous ...
Alexandre Dumas, fils (born July 27, 1824, Paris, Fr.—died Nov. 27, 1895, Marly-le-Roi) was a French playwright and novelist, one of the founders of the “problem play”—that is, of the middle-class realistic drama treating some contemporary ill and offering suggestions for its remedy.
Alexandre Dumas dit Alexandre Dumas fils, né le 27 juillet 1824 à Paris et mort le 27 novembre 1895 à Marly-le-Roi, est un romancier et dramaturge français. Il fut comme son père un auteur à succès. Il est connu principalement pour son roman La Dame aux camélias, ainsi que pour deux pièces de théâtre, Le Fils naturel et Un père prodigue .
The French author Alexandre Dumas, known as Dumas fils, b. July 27, 1824, d. Nov. 27, 1895, was the illegitimate son of Alexandre Dumas père. Like his illustrious father, he wrote novels and plays, establishing the genre known as the problem, or thesis, play.
Written by Alexandre Dumas fils (1824–1895) when he was 23 years old, and first published in 1848, La Dame aux Camélias is a semi-autobiographical novel based on the author's brief love affair with a courtesan, Marie Duplessis.
He was the father (père) of the dramatist and novelist Alexandre Dumas, called Dumas fils. Dumas’s father, Thomas-Alexandre Davy de La Pailleterie—born out of wedlock to the marquis de La Pailleterie and Marie Cessette Dumas, a black slave of Santo Domingo—was a common soldier under the ancien régime who assumed the name Dumas in 1786.
Alexandre Dumas (fils) (son) 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.
