Alexandre Dumas

Marguerite de Valois Alexandre Dumas

Marguerite de Valois by Alexandre DumasMonsieur de Guise's Latin The Queen of Navarre's Bedchamber. The Poet-king The Evening of the 24th of August, 1572 Of the Louvre in Particular, and Of Virtue in General The Debt Paid The Night of the 24th of August, 1572 The Massacre The Murderers Death, Mass, Or the Bastille The Hawthorn of the Cemetery of The Innocents Mutual Confidences How There Are Keys Which Open Doors They Are Not Meant for The Second Marriage Night What Woman Wills, God Wills A Dead Enemy's Body Always Smells Sweet Maître Ambroise Paré's Confrère The Ghosts The Abode of Maître Réné, Perfumer To the Queen Mother The Black Hens Madame de Sauve's Apartment "sire, You Shall Be King" A New Convert The Rue Tizon and the Rue Cloche Percée The Cherry-colored Cloak Margarita The Hand of God The Letter From Rome The Departure Maurevel The Hunt Fraternity The Gratitude of King Charles IX Man Proposes But God Disposes A Night of Kings The Anagram The Return To the Louvre The Girdle of the Queen Mother Projects of Revenge The Atrides The Horoscope Confidences The Ambassadors Orestes and Pylades Orthon The Inn of la Belle Étoile De Mouy de Saint Phale Two Heads for One Crown The Treatise on Hunting Hawking The Pavilion of François I The Examination Actéon The Forest of Vincennes The Figure of Wax The Invisible Bucklers The Judges The Torture of the Boot The Chapel The Place Saint Jean En Grève The Headsman's Tower The Sweat of Blood The Donjon of the Prison of Vincennes The Regency The King Is Dead! Long Live The King! Epilogue Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870) is one of the most famous French writers in history, known for his historical novels of swashbuckling adventure. Dumas' work, including The Three Musketeers and Twenty Years After, are still widely read in classrooms throughout the world and remain entertaining upon rereading. Dumas' works were serialized, as he was a magazine correspondent and journalist. Also among Dumas' best adventures is The Count of Monte Cristo, which is now a staple of Western classrooms and has been made into many movies.