Alexandre Dumas

Die Kameliendame (La dame aux camélias) ist ein Roman des französischen Autors Alexandre Dumas d. J. Er erschien 1848 in Paris und wurde zu einem der größten Erfolge des sonst im Schatten seines Vaters stehenden Autors. Wie auch andere Romane Dumas’ d. J. beschäftigt sich das Buch mit der Pariser Halbwelt, der demi-monde, in der sich Dumas bewegte....

Die drei Musketiere ist ein Roman von Alexandre Dumas dem Älteren in Zusammenarbeit mit Auguste Maquet. Er ist der erste Teil einer Trilogie über d’Artagnan und seine drei Freunde Athos, Porthos und Aramis, die zu den Musketieren der Garde gehören. Im April des Jahres 1625 bricht der junge Gascogner d’Artagnan nach Paris auf, um Mitglied der...

Die schwarze Tulpe (französisch La Tulipe noire), eine Geschichte über den Tulpenzüchter Cornelius van Baerle und die schöne Rosa, ist einer der erfolgreichsten Romane von Alexandre Dumas. Niederlande, 1672: In einer Zeit politischer Wirren hat die Tulpengesellschaft von Haarlem einen Preis von 100.000 Gulden für denjenigen ausgesetzt, der eine...

The Companions of Jehu were formed in the Lyon region of France in April 1795 to hunt down Jacobins implicated in the Reign of Terror. It is possible that they were founded by The Marquis de Besignan, who also founded royalist underground groups in Forez and Dauphiné with the Prince of Condé in 1796.[5] Their victims are believed to have numbered...

The Corsican Brothers (French: Les Frères corses) is a novella by Alexandre Dumas, père, first published in 1844. It is the story of two conjoined brothers who, though separated at birth, can still feel each other's pains. It has been adapted many times on the stage and in film. The story starts in March 1841, when the narrator travels to Corsica...

Chevalier Gaston de Chanley loves Helene de Chaverny, raised in a convent as an orphan but in reality the daughter of somebody very highly placed in early 18th century France. They long to be married, but Gaston has sworn an oath to a cabal of plotting Bretons to murder their enemy, the prince regent Philippe Duc D'Orleans. (Goodreads)

Synopsis: France had been changed to a limited monarchy from an absolute one, and King Louis XVI. had solemnly sworn to defend the new Constitution. But it had been remarked by shrewd observers that he had not attended the Te Deum at the Paris Cathedral, with the members of the National Assembly: that is, he would tell a lie but not commit perjury....

The Wolf Leader is an English translation by Alfred Allinson of Le Meneur de loups, an 1857 fantasy novel by Alexandre Dumas. Le Meneur de Loups is set around 1780 in Dumas' native town of Villers-Cotterêts, and is supposedly based on a local folk-tale Dumas heard as a child. The story concerns Thibault, a shoe-maker, who is beaten by the...

Synopsis: The French Revolution had begun by the Taking of the Bastile by the people of Paris on the Fourteenth of July, 1789, but it seemed to have reached the high tide by King Louis XVI, with his Queen Marie Antoinette and others of the Royal Family, leaving Versailles, after some sanguinary rioting, for the Capital, Paris. But those who think,...

A true sequel to "La Dame de Monsoreau", English "Chicot the Jester". It concerns the revenge of Diane de Méridor upon the Duc d'Anjou for his base betrayal of Bussy d'Amboise. Historically it commences with the execution of Salcède and the arrival of the Forty-Five at Paris, and deals with the Guise intrigues, the campaign of Anjou in Flanders and...