Tóm tắt tiểu sử tác giả và tác phẩm Alexandre Dumas Alexandre Dumas, a French novelist and dramatist, was born at Viller-Cotterets in 1802. His father, the illegitimate son of a marquis, was a general in the Revolutionary armies, but died when Dumas was only four-years-old. He received a basic education from a priest and entered the office of a local lawyer. After he met General Foy he became a clerk in the Service of the Duke of Orleans. At that time he began to collaborate with Leuven in the production of vaudevilles and melodramas. In 1844 he produced, with the help of Auguste Maquet, his new collaborator, a famous cloak-and-dagger romance, The Three Musketeers, which is based almost solely on historical fact, as opposed to his other very successtul novel, The Count of Monte Cristo, which was a product of his brilliant imagination. Much has been written about Dumas' share ỉn the novels which bear his name. The Dumas-Marquet series is undoubtedly the best. But the manuscripts of novels still exist in Dumas' handwriting and attest to his skill as a narrator, and he is considered by most literacy critics as "the master of narrative." Dumas died in 1870. The Three Musketeers “All for one, one for all”... the legendary, immortal motto of the colorful and courageous musketeers. Alexandre Dumas lives up to his legendary reputation with his brilliant nineteenth-century historical classic adventure ... The Three Musketeers. The story exemplifies camaraderie and the loyalty the musketeers had to their king, queen, and country. The main characters ... Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, the adventurous three musketeers, later ịoined by d’Artagnan, the colorful and courageous new musketeer... all unite in their dedication to the defense of France and the destruction of Lady de Winter, “Milady,” the conniving spy of Cardinal Richelieu and wicked murderer of Constance Bonacieux, the loyal seamstress and friend of the French queen.
