Alexandre Dumas

France's great storyteller: the musketeers and Monte Cristo, written at industrial speed with collaborators.

Specifications & Metrics

era

1802 – 1870

language

French

region

Villers-Cotterêts and Paris, France

notable works

The Three Musketeers, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Man in the Iron Mask

Core Principles & Analysis

• His father, General Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, rose to command an entire army in revolutionary France.
• He ran a fiction workshop with collaborators like Auguste Maquet.
• His novels were serialized sensations across Europe.

Sources

• Wikipedia: Alexandre Dumas