DUMAS

was the name of two famous French novelists of modern times, both ofwhom were called Alexandre. The elder was born in 1803, and made his first hit with his drama, Henri III. in 1829, followed by a number of dramas, A ntony, Tcrcsc, Catharine Howard, etc. Then he turned to romance, and produced a number of historical romances, e.g. The Three Musketeers and Twenty Tears After. The younger was bom in 1824, and wrote La Dame aux Camelias and Diane de Lys, but his satiric dramas are much better