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Title: The history and progress of the world
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Sanderson, Edgar, d. 1907 Lamberton, John Porter, 1839-1917, joint author Morris, Charles, 1833-1922, joint author
Subjects: World history Philosophers Women Statesmen Statesmen Literature
Publisher: Philadelphia, T. Nolan
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at Alexandrewas born at Villers-Cotterets on July 4, 1802. He wasboisterous and troublesome in youth and at the age oftwenty-one went to Paris to seek his fortune. He enteredthe employ of the Duke of Orleans, and two years laterbegan to write small pieces for the theater. He took quitenaturally to the Romantic movement, being influenced bythe visit of some English actors to Paris, who introducedhim to Shakespeare. The performance of his drama of*Henri III on February 11, 1829, was the first successof the Romantic school. In the Revolution of July, 1830,Dumas took an active part. But he soon returned to thetheater and wrote x\ntony, a powerful but immoralplay. When his Tour de Nesle (1832) led to a chargeof plagiarism, critics discovered that in his earlier playsalso he had appropriated whole scenes from foreign plays,fitting them ingeniously to his plot. Dumas not only con-tinued this practice afterward in his novels, but employedvarious collaborators, none of whom, however, could ob-
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FRENCH 233 tain the same success, when working independently. Onaccount of a duel, he was ordered to leave France, andwent to Switzerland. In 1842 he married an actress, whothree years later separated from him and went to Italy. At last, in 1844, appeared the first of his great novels,which gave Dumas at once a European reputation. Noromance since Waverley had excited such universalinterest as The Count of Monte Cristo. The brillianceof its coloring, the unflagging rush of the narrative, thefrequent surprises and the air of probability given to themost improbable circumstances filled the world with aston-ishment. Scarcely was this story finished when TheThree Musketeers followed, characterized by the samequalities. The immediate demand for Dumas services asa story writer for the daily journals led him to put inpractice the plan already mentioned of employing skilledassistants. In one year he is said to have issued fortyvolumes and still the demand grew for more. Whateverthe amount of

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