Alexandre Dumas (1802 - 1870)
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The Three Musketeers (1844) - Alexandre Dumas père [Amazon.com] [FR] [DE] [UK]
The Count of Monte Cristo (1934) - Rowland V. Lee [Amazon.com] [FR] [DE] [UK]
In the 2006 film, V for Vendetta, characters V and Evey Hammond watch the 1934 version of The Count of Monte Cristo. V cites it as his favorite film. [Aug 2006]
Biography
Alexandre Dumas, père, born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie (July 24, 1802 – December 5, 1870) was a French writer, best known for his numerous historical novels of high adventure which have made him the most widely read French author in the world. Many of his novels, including The Count of Monte Cristo and the D'Artagnan Romances, were serialized, and he also wrote plays, magazine articles, and was a prolific correspondent. His paternal grandmother was a black slave. --http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandre_Dumas [May 2006]
The Three Musketeers (1844) - Alexandre Dumas père
In March 1844 the French magazine Le Siecle, printed the first installment of a story by Alexandre Dumas. It was based, Dumas claimed, on some manuscripts he had found a year earlier in the Bibliotheque Nationale while researching a history he planned to write on Louis XIV.
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