Alexandre Dumas

Alexandre Dumas, also known as Dumas père, was a French novelist and playwright who died in 1870. He wrote historical adventure novels, many first published as serials, including The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers, the first of the D'Artagnan Romances, which continues in Twenty Years After. Dumas also wrote many plays and, in the 1840s, founded the Théâtre Historique in Paris.