French school around 1880 Portrait of Alexandre... - Lot 94 - Paris Enchères - Collin du Bocage

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French school around 1880 Portrait of Alexandre... - Lot 94 - Paris Enchères - Collin du Bocage
French school around 1880 Portrait of Alexandre Dumas Panel, one board, not parqueted 25 x 15 cm Alexandre Dumas is, along with Victor Hugo, the most popular writer of the 19th century. Born in Villers-Cotterêts in 1802 to a republican general, himself the son of a black slave, he saw his father disappear in 1806. The lack of resources forced him to earn his living first as a notary's clerk and then, in Paris, where his ambition to conquer literary glory attracted him, as an employee in the offices of Louis-Philippe, Duke of Orleans. From his second play, the first romantic drama to be performed at the Théâtre-Français, he was the leader of the 1830s generation. Then he chose to write novels, especially historical novels, with the project of writing the "Drama of France", a series of novels that, while entertaining the people, would teach them their own history. His cycles depicting the end of the Valois (La Reine Margot, La Dame de Monsoreau, Les Quarante-Cinq), the advent of the absolute monarchy (Les Trois Mousquetaires, Vingt ans après, Le Vicomte de Bragelonne), the fall of the monarchy and the Revolution (Joseph Balsamo, Le Collier de la Reine, Ange Pitou, La Comtesse de Charny), ensured his fame and made him one of the fathers of our collective memory.
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