Alexandre Dumas fils

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Alexandre Dumas fils
Légion d'honneur
(1894)
Spouse
Nadezhda von Knorring
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(m. 1864; died 1895)​
Henriette Régnier de La Brière
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​
(m. 1895)​
Children2, Colette Dumas [fr], Jeannine Dumas Hauterive [fr]
ParentsAlexandre Dumas
Marie-Laure-Catherine Labay [ru]
RelativesAlexandre Lippmann (grandson)
Thomas-Alexandre Dumas (grandfather)
Signature

Alexandre Dumas fils (French:

La Dame aux Camélias (The Lady of the Camellias), 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, usually titled Camille
in English-language versions.

Dumas

Légion d'honneur
(Legion of Honour) in 1894.

Biography

Alexandre Dumas fils, in his youth
Orsay Museum
Tomb, Montmartre Cemetery, Paris

Dumas was born in Paris, France, the

illegitimate child of Marie-Laure-Catherine Labay [ru] (1794–1868), a dressmaker, and novelist Alexandre Dumas. In 1831 his father legally recognized him and ensured that the young Dumas received the best education possible at the Institution Goubaux and the Collège Bourbon. At that time, the law allowed the elder Dumas to take the child away from his mother. Her agony inspired the younger Dumas to write about tragic female characters. In almost all of his writings, he emphasized the moral purpose of literature; in his play The Illegitimate Son (1858) he espoused the belief that if a man fathers an illegitimate child, then he has an obligation to legitimize the child and marry the woman (see Illegitimacy in fiction). At boarding schools, he was constantly taunted by his classmates because of his family situation. These issues profoundly influenced his thoughts, behaviour, and writing.[citation needed
]

Dumas' paternal great-grandparents were Marquis Alexandre-Antoine Davy de la Pailleterie, a

Revolutionary France.[1]

In 1844, Dumas moved to

La Dame aux camélias (The Lady of the Camellias). Adapted into a play, it was titled Camille in English and became the basis for Verdi's 1853 opera, La traviata, Duplessis undergoing yet another name change, this time to Violetta Valéry.[citation needed
]

Although he admitted that he had done the adaptation because he needed the money, he had great success with the play, which started his career as a dramatist. He was not only more renowned than his father during his lifetime, but also dominated the serious French stage for most of the second half of the 19th century. After this, he virtually abandoned writing novels, though his semi-autobiographical Affaire Clémenceau (1866) achieved some solid success.[citation needed]

On 31 December 1864, in Moscow, Dumas married Nadezhda von Knorring (1826–April 1895), daughter of Johan Reinhold von Knorring and widow of Alexander Grigorievich Narishkin. The couple had two daughters: Marie-Alexandrine-Henriette "Colette" Dumas [fr] (born 20 November 1860), who married Maurice Lippmann and was the mother of Serge Napoléon Lippmann (1886–1975) and Auguste Alexandre Lippmann (1881–1960); and Jeanine Dumas (3 May 1867–1943), who married Ernest Lecourt d'Hauterive (1864–1957), son of George Lecourt d'Hauterive and his wife, Léontine de Leusse. After Nadezhda's death, Dumas married Henriette Régnier de La Brière (1851–1934) in June 1895, without issue.[citation needed]

In 1874, he was admitted to the

Légion d'honneur.[citation needed
]

Dumas died at Marly-le-Roi, Yvelines, on 27 November 1895, and was interred in the Montmartre Cemetery in Paris. His grave is some 100 meters away from that of Marie Duplessis.[citation needed]

Bibliography

Novels

Opera

Plays

  • Atala (1848)
  • The Lady of the Camellias (1852)
  • Diane de Lys (1853)
  • Le Bijou de la reine (1855)
  • Le Demi-monde (1855)
  • La Question d'argent (1857)
  • Le Fils naturel (The Illegitimate Son, 1858)
  • Un Père prodigue (1859)
  • Un Mariage dans un chapeau (1859) coll. Vivier
  • L'Ami des femmes (1864)
  • Le Supplice d'une femme (1865) coll. Emile de Girardin
  • Héloïse Paranquet (1866) coll. Durentin
  • Les Idées de Madame Aubray (1867)
  • Le Filleul de Pompignac (1869) coll. Francois
  • Une Visite de noces (1871)
  • La Princesse Georges (1871)
  • La Femme de Claude (1873)
  • Monsieur Alphonse (1873)
  • L'Étrangère (1876)
  • Les Danicheff (1876) coll. de Corvin
  • La Comtesse Romani (1876) coll. Gustave Fould
  • La Princesse de Bagdad (1881)
  • Denise (1885)
  • Francillon (1887)
  • La Route de Thèbes (unfinished)

See also

References

  1. ISBN 978-0307382467
    .

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