Dumas, Alexandre
Dumas, Alexandre ( 1824 – 95 ),known as ‘Dumas fils’, son of the above, French novelist and playwright. His first, and most remarkable, venture into the theatre was La Dame aux camélias ( 1852 ), a dramatization of his own novel ( 1848 ) of the same title. The story of the love, doomed by social disapproval, of the reformed courtesan Marguerite Gautier for the respectable Armand Duval, it held the stage with great success for half a century. Thereafter Dumas fils turned to the writing of social-problem dramas, such as Le Demi-monde ( 1855 ), Le Fils naturel ( 1858 ), Les Idées de Madame Aubray ( 1867 ), L'Étrangère ( 1876 ).
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