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Alexandre Dumas

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Alexandre Dumas

1802–1870

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1703
Event

A masked man held prisoner in the Bastille in Paris died. His true identity was the cause of much intrigue, and his story became the basis of literary works by François Voltaire and Alexandre Dumas.

November 19 →
1802
Birth

French author and playwright (d. 1870)

July 24 →
1854
Event

en el Teatro San Benedetto, en Venecia (Italia) ―tras el fiasco del año anterior en el Gran Teatro La Fenice―, se restrena La traviata de Giuseppe Verdi. Fue un éxito rotundo debido sobre todo a la nueva intérprete, la joven soprano María Spezia-Aldighieri, quien incluso en apariencia recordaba la figura de Violetta, la protagonista de la novela La dama de las camelias de Alexandre Dumas (hijo).

May 6 →
2002
Event

Die sterblichen Überreste des französischen Schriftstellers Alexandre Dumas werden 132 Jahre nach seinem Tod im Pariser Ruhmestempel Panthéon beigesetzt.

November 30 →

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