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Dumas, AR -- U.S. city in Arkansas
Population (2000): 5238
Housing Units (2000): 2177
Land area (2000): 2.962666 sq. miles (7.673269 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.962666 sq. miles (7.673269 sq. km)
FIPS code: 19990
Located within: Arkansas (AR), FIPS 05
Location: 33.886626 N, 91.488544 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 71639
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Dumas, TX -- U.S. city in Texas
Population (2000): 13747
Housing Units (2000): 5119
Land area (2000): 5.127616 sq. miles (13.280463 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.018963 sq. miles (0.049115 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 5.146579 sq. miles (13.329578 sq. km)
FIPS code: 21556
Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location: 35.862478 N, 101.966931 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 79029
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Dumas, MS -- U.S. town in Mississippi
Population (2000): 452
Housing Units (2000): 192
Land area (2000): 3.895831 sq. miles (10.090155 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 3.895831 sq. miles (10.090155 sq. km)
FIPS code: 20340
Located within: Mississippi (MS), FIPS 28
Location: 34.634549 N, 88.847800 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 38625
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Dumas (surname)

Dumas is a Southern French topographic surname, with fused preposition and definite article du, for someone who lived in an isolated dwelling in the country rather than in a village, from Occitan mas 'farmstead' ( Late Latin mansum, mansus).

People surnamed Dumas include:

  • Adolphe Dumas (1805-1861), French poet.
  • Alexandre Dumas, père (1802-1870), French novelist and author of The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo
  • Alexandre Dumas, fils (1824-1895), son of the above and also a novelist, author of The Lady of the Camellias
  • Amy Dumas (born 1975), former professional wrestler better known as " Lita"
  • Charles Dumas (1937-2004), American Olympic champion high jumper, first person to clear 7'
  • Daniel Dumas (born 1983), Australian rugby player
  • Dumas (musician) (born 1979), Canadian musician born Steve Dumas
  • Franck Dumas (born 1968), French football player and manager
  • Frédéric Dumas (1913–1991), one of the first two diving companions of Jacques-Yves Cousteau
  • Georges Dumas (French link) (1866-1946), French doctor and psychologist
  • Gilles Dumas, French rugby league footballer and coach
  • Guillaume-Mathieu Dumas, comte Dumas (1753-1837), French general
  • Henry Dumas (1934-1968), African-American poet and author
  • Jean-Baptiste Dumas (1800-1884), French chemist
  • Joseph Dumas (1875-1950), Canadian politician
  • Marlene Dumas (born 1953), South African artist
  • Maurice Dumas (1927-2015), Canadian professor and politician
  • Pierre Benoît Dumas (1668–1745), French Governor General of Pondicherry and Réunion
  • Richard Dumas (born 1969), American basketball player
  • Roland Dumas (born 1922), French politician and lawyer
  • Romain Dumas (born 1977), French racing driver
  • Russell Dumas (1887-1975), Australian engineer and public servant
  • Tancrède Dumas (1830-1905), Italian photographer
  • Thomas-Alexandre Dumas (1762-1806), general of the French Revolution and father of the novelist Alexandre Dumas, père
  • Tony Dumas (born 1972), American basketball player
  • Vito Dumas (1900-1965), Argentine single-handed sailor
  • W. W. Dumas (1916-1993), former Mayor-President of East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana
Dumas (musician)

Dumas (born as Steve Dumas on July 4, 1979) is a Canadian singer and a native of Victoriaville, Quebec.

Dumas (film)

Dumas (original title: L'Autre Dumas) is a 2010 French film directed by Safy Nebbou about 19th-century French author Alexandre Dumas.

Usage examples of "dumas".

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.