Creator of Aramis

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Readers with a taste for Dumas and demonology will enjoy his devious inventions.

Take Cardinal Richelieu: he was the greatest man of his time, but once the treacherous Dumas had finished with him, the image left to us was that of a sinister villain.

According to his infor­mation, Dumas had had fifty-two collaborators at different pe­riods of his literary life.

While Dumas died pen­niless, Maquet died a rich man at his castle in Saint-Mesme.

In one of them, his African blood clearly visible in his curly hair and mulatto looks, Dumas sat smiling at Isabelle Constant, who, Corso gathered from the cap­tion, was fifteen when she became the novelist’s mistress.

The second photograph showed an older Dumas, posing with his daughter Marie.

It was as if old Dumas was asking for understanding, having given in to the girl’s capricious wish to be photographed.

In this way we moved from Dumas to Zevaco and Paul Feval, and ended by once again confirming Sabatini’s indisputable influence on Salgari.

Alexandre Dumas deserves sole credit for giving the fictional d’Artagnan what a miserly Louis XIV refused his flesh-and-blood predecessor.

A century and a half later, Dumas found out about the book during a trip to Marseilles.

Apparently the brother showed Dumas the book, edited in Cologne in 1700.

Shrewd Dumas fitted in with reality without diminishing the novel’s interest.

Old Dumas needed a great deal less than that to become infatuated with a woman, so he accepted her tribute.

Her relationship with Dumas caused a great deal of scandal, because Menken liked to be photographed scantily clad and frequented number 107 Rue Malesherbes, Dumas’s last house in Paris.

I’m sure old Dumas never believed a word of it, but he must have enjoyed the whole performance.