France gave the world a lot of talented writers, but few of them can compare with Alexander Dumas. This man left descendants a huge amount of amazing works. Is there at least one person in the world who has not heard about the “Three Musketeers”? But this book is a long list of novels published by Dumas, far from being limited.
Grandma Alexandra Dumas was a black slave. Dumas’ father was also a slave, until his own father, who came to the famous writer of his grandfather, bought him. The homeland of the ancestors of Dumas, like the homeland of the ancestors of Pushkin – Africa, and the ancestors of these two pillars of world literature even lived not too far from each other. At the age of 52, the French writer, during his visit to Russia, received the title of honorary Cossack. Dumas spent some time in Russia. And in Russian, he wrote as many as nineteen works. Alexander Dumas translated from Russian into French more works of Pushkin, Nekrasov and Lermontov than all the other French, who lived at the same time. At one time, the writer was the teacher of the young nephew of the emperor Napoleon Bonaparte. Books Dumas occupy the first place in the world among all works of art by the number of printed copies. There are hundreds of millions of books.
The revolution that occurred in Russia in 1917, the writer predicted almost two decades before these events. The character of Alexandre Dumas was distinguished by his gambling – he loved to argue, which sometimes led to dangerous situations. Researchers Dumas argue that during his life in Paris was not less than five hundred mistresses. Dumas was very fond of animals, because of which his own house was like a zoo. He lived and cats, and dogs, and monkeys, and chickens, and even the neck, specially brought them from Africa. The writer was also not deprived of culinary talent, which is noticeable in his detailed descriptions of dishes in some works. Being a rich man, Dumas, however, sometimes liked to cook on his own, claiming that it was a creative process.
In total, from the pen of Alexandre Dumas came out more than five hundred works. The son of the writer, who also bore the name of Alexander, followed in the footsteps of his father and also became a writer, so often, when speaking of the writer Dumas, they add who it is about – the father or the son. Some literary critics claim that many works of Dumas were written for him by “literary blacks” – hired writers, since one person was not able to have so many books. At the moment, it is reliably known only about one “assistant” of Dumas – Auguste Maca, who really had a hand in some of his works, but he himself received 8,000 francs from Dumas and remained in the shadows. After his long journey through the Caucasus, Alexander Dumas discovered the first barbecue in Paris (interesting facts about Paris). According to contemporaries, Dumas often spent working on his books 12-15 hours a day.
