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Early Life
-born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie on July 24, 1802
-he took the name Dumas when he enlisted in Napoleon's army -
Writing Career
-moved to Paris
-wrote plays, comedies, and dramas
-prolific writer of essays, short stories, novels, plays, and tragedies
-wrote The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers, D'Artagan Romances, Twenty Years After, and The Vicomte Of Bragelonne:Ten Years Later
-fled to Belgium in 1851, and later to Russia, to evade creditors -
Personal Life
-Dumas had a son with Marie Laure Catherine, Alexandre
-his son was interested in writing too
-Dumas married an actress, named Ida Ferrier
-Dumas was an adulterer
-he had at least one daughter, Marie Alexandre -
Death
-buried in the cemetary of Villers-Cotterets
-in 2002, body moved to the Pantheon in Paris
-he rests there with other literary authors
