Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet

Alexandre Dumas was born in Villers-Cotterêts on 24 July 1802, the son of a general and the grandson of a slave from Saint-Domingue. A notary's clerk, then an employee of the Duke of Orléans, he triumphed in the theatre in 1829 before turning to the serial novel. He died near Dieppe on 5 December 1870. Auguste Maquet, born in Paris in 1813, a teacher who turned to letters, was his main collaborator from the end of the 1830s, then sued him to be paid; he died in Saint-Mesme in 1888.

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• NovelThe Three MusketeersLes Trois MousquetairesAlexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet · 1844LiteraturePublic domain