Alexandre Dumas, fils (Critical Survey of Drama)
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Most of the works of Alexandre Dumas, fils, were published in the late nineteenth century by Calmann-Levy. In addition to his theatrical works, Dumas wrote twelve novels, two of which, La Dame aux camélias (1848; Camille, 1857) and Diane de Lys (1851), he later dramatized. The others are prosaic and pretentious, including the best known and most successful, L’Affaire Clémenceau: Mémoire de l’accusé (1866; The Clemenceau Case, 1890), a sort of autobiographical roman à thèse in which the author, at...
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