Alexandre Dumas was born on July 24, 1802 in the village of
Villers-Cotterats, just outside Paris, France.
Dumas first began writing musical comedies and then historical
plays in collaboration with a poet friend, Adolphe de Leuven.
Influenced by William Shakespeare, Sir Walter Scott, Friedrich von
Schiller, and Lord Byron, Dumas wrote his first plays in 1825 and
1826. Henry III and His Court (1829), brought him great success and
recognition. By 1851 he had written more than twenty plays. He also
began writing fiction at this time, first short stories and then
novels. He wrote The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After, and The
Count of Monte Cristo during this period.
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