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      • But his The Three Musketeers, The Count of Monte Cristo, and numerous other novels became enormously popular worldwide and later inspired many films. He is sometimes called Alexandre Dumas, père (father), to distinguish him from his son, Alexandre Dumas, fils (son), who was also a writer.
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  2. [1] In 1844, Dumas moved to Saint-Germain-en-Laye, near Paris, to live with his father. There he met Marie Duplessis, a young courtesan who would be the inspiration for the character Marguerite Gauthier in his romantic novel La Dame aux camélias (The Lady of the Camellias).

  3. Dumas fils possessed a good measure of his father’s literary fecundity, but the work of the two men could scarcely be more different. His first success was a novel, La Dame aux camélias (1848), but he found his vocation when he adapted the story into a play, known in English as Camille, first performed in 1852.

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  4. Like his illustrious father, he wrote novels and plays, establishing the genre known as the problem, or thesis, play. His output was copious, but it far from equalled the avalanche of works produced by his father. But Dumas fils, unlike his father, worked without collaborators.

  5. Sep 26, 2018 · The relationship between Dumas père et fils was strained at the beginning. Dumas fils hated being illegitimate, disliked his father’s endless string of women, and believed that men should be forced to marry the mothers of their offspring. But later, says Claude Schopp, their relationship improved. “As adults they were life companions, and ...

  6. While his then-famous father concentrated on works of historical adventure, Dumas fils concentrated on more contemporary issues. He was introduced to the literary world and became acquainted with notable figures through his father but came to be respected in his own right after the success of Camille .

  7. He is sometimes called Alexandre Dumas, père (father), to distinguish him from his son, Alexandre Dumas, fils, who was also a writer. He was born on July 24, 1802, in the French town of Villers-Cotterêts.

  8. 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. He later became a general in Napoleon’s army.