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Alexandre Dumas fils

1824 - 1895

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Alexandre Dumas fils (French: [alɛksɑ̃dʁ(ə) 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, usually titled Camille in English-language versions), published in 1848, which was adapted into Giuseppe Verdi's 1853 opera La traviata (The Fallen Woman), as well as numerous stage and film productions. Dumas fils (French for "son") was the son of Alexandre Dumas père ("father"), also a well-known playwright and author of classic works such as The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo. Dumas fils was admitted to the Académie française (French Academy) in 1874 and awarded the Legion of Honour in 1894. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alexandre Dumas fils is the 102nd most popular writer (up from 128th in 2019), the 98th most popular biography from France (up from 138th in 2019) and the 20th most popular French Writer.

Alexandre Dumas is most famous for his novel "The Count of Monte Cristo."

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Among writers, Alexandre Dumas fils ranks 102 out of 7,302. Before him are Erich Maria Remarque, Ursula K. Le Guin, Isaac Asimov, Paulo Coelho, Virginia Woolf, and Guy de Maupassant. After him are Miyamoto Musashi, Arthur Rimbaud, François Rabelais, Jack London, Knut Hamsun, and W. Somerset Maugham.

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Among people born in 1824, Alexandre Dumas fils ranks 3. Before him are William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, and Bedřich Smetana. After him are Anton Bruckner, Gustav Kirchhoff, Stonewall Jackson, Jean-Léon Gérôme, Maria Alexandrovna, Eugène Boudin, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, Paul Broca, and Dayananda Saraswati. Among people deceased in 1895, Alexandre Dumas fils ranks 3. Before him are Louis Pasteur, and Friedrich Engels. After him are Berthe Morisot, Thomas Henry Huxley, Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, José Martí, Franz von Suppé, Empress Myeongseong, Isma'il Pasha, Julius Lothar Meyer, and Adam Opel.

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In France

Among people born in France, Alexandre Dumas fils ranks 98 out of 6,770. Before him are Louis Braille (1809), Jean-Paul Belmondo (1933), Louis de Funès (1914), Gustave Courbet (1819), Guy de Maupassant (1850), and William the Conqueror (1028). After him are Louis Philippe I (1773), Arthur Rimbaud (1854), François Rabelais (1494), Louis XII of France (1462), Henry II of France (1519), and W. Somerset Maugham (1874).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Alexandre Dumas fils ranks 20. Before him are Gustave Flaubert (1821), Octave Mirbeau (1848), Stendhal (1783), Romain Rolland (1866), Charles Perrault (1628), and Guy de Maupassant (1850). After him are Arthur Rimbaud (1854), François Rabelais (1494), W. Somerset Maugham (1874), Marquis de Sade (1740), Anatole France (1844), and André Gide (1869).

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