“But I have also given him some mistresses and children.”
- #wikipedia
- #quote
- #trusted-source
- #www.theguardian.com
- #corroborated
Figure timeline
Alexandre Dumas
Alexandre Dumas, also known as Alexandre Dumas père, was a French novelist and playwright.
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
culture · French writer and dramatist (1802–1870) · novelist · playwright · writer · also Alexandre Dumas, Alexandre Dumas, père, Alexandre Dumas, father, Alexandre Dumas, the Elder, Alexandre Dumas pere, Dumas
Born 24 July 1802 · Died 5 December 1870 · Q38337
57 published statements · 0 followers
See & hear
Photos & media
12 photos
Media from Wikimedia Commons, hotlinked at the source under its own licence — see each file for author and terms.
Live now
In the news
Pulling headlines from trusted outlets — this usually takes a few seconds
Checking the wires…
Feed scan
These are live links, not archived citations — they only join the timeline once a collect run verifies and archives them.
Live pulse
Recent highlights
Most recent outstanding titles, awards, and quotes
- Quote
- Quote
2026· 7 entries
“It was certainly an easy life. But I reached a point where I thought to myself,”
- #wikipedia
- #quote
- #trusted-source
- #www.theguardian.com
- #corroborated
“and I guess I was as guilty as any. This letter disabused me of any pretensions I may have had and I started to track down the missing reference.”
- #wikipedia
- #quote
- #trusted-source
- #www.theguardian.com
- #corroborated
“It meant that I could come to the texts unsullied by any commentaries and form my own opinions.”
- #wikipedia
- #quote
- #trusted-source
- #www.theguardian.com
- #corroborated
“Eh, gentlemen, let us reckon upon accidents! Life is a chaplet of little miseries which the philosopher counts with a smile. Be philosophers, as I am, gentlemen; sit down at the table and let us drink. Nothing makes the future look so bright as surveying it through a glass of chambertin.”
- #wikiquote
- #quote
The Economic Times: Quote of the day by Alexandre Dumas: 'When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of..., you will never want to live again, only to...' - A timeless life lesson ...
- #news
- #headline
Public attention spiked: 13,023 Wikipedia readers in one day, 5× the usual 2,617, with 4 article edits. Editors noted: External links Performed minor cleanup.
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #attention
- #spike
- #pageviews
2021· 2 entries
Indiatimes: Books by Alexandre Dumas you need to read (apart from 'The Three Musketeers')
- #news
- #headline
Snopes rated the claim “In Britney Spears' 1998 hit song "... Baby One More Time," the line beginning "my loneliness is killing me" was an English translation of "ma solitude me tue, j’avoue que je continue de croire" in French author Alexandre Dumas' novel, "The Count of Monte Cristo."” False.
Shown as reported and rated by a fact checker, not as an established fact.
- #fact-check
- #rated
- #claim-about-figure
2020· 4 entries
Observer: Alexandre Dumas’ Real Life Was as Fascinating as His Fiction
- #news
- #headline
International Business Times: Alexandre Dumas Quotes: Google Doodle Celebrates Revered French Writer
- #news
- #headline
The Mirror: Extraordinary life of Alexandre Dumas was even more exciting than his novels
- #news
- #headline
UPI: Google honors author Alexandre Dumas with new Doodle
- #news
- #headline
2015· 1 entry
The New Criterion: Alexandre Dumas: fact & fiction
- #news
- #headline
2014· 1 entry
The Guardian: Alexandre Dumas: swashbuckling musketeers are only half the story
- #news
- #headline
2008· 1 entry
The Guardian: Alexandre Dumas, père
- #news
- #headline
2006· 1 entry
As The Last Cavalier, and has been translated into other languages
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
2002· 3 entries
By the scholar Réginald Hamel in the Bibliothèque Nationale de France
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
For the bicentenary of Dumas's birth, French President Jacques Chirac held a ceremony honouring the author by having his ashes re-interred at the mausoleum of the Panthéon, where many French luminaries were buried
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
By the Canadian scholar Reginald Hamel, who was researching in the Bibliothèque Nationale de France
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1990· 1 entry
That led him to discover the unfinished work
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1976· 1 entry
“from Sunset Gun (1927); reproduced in Not So Deep as a Well: Collected Poems (1937), p. 110. I was exposed to Dickens, Dumas, Victor Hugo, de Maupassant, Balzac. Muriel Rukeyser “The Education of a Poet”
- #wikiquote
- #quote
1970· 1 entry
Upon the centenary of his death, the Paris Metro named a station in his honour
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1967· 1 entry
“And I know I was watched by the KGB. But nothing ever bad happened because I was basically just very boring.”
- #wikipedia
- #quote
- #trusted-source
- #www.theguardian.com
- #corroborated
1873· 1 entry
And several editions of it are still in print today
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1870· 18 entries
Died 1870-12-05.
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #death
“(…) albowiem dla człowieka szczęśliwego modlitwa to tylko zbiór słów, monotonnych i pozbawionych sensu, i dopiero kiedy przygniecie go rozpacz i ból, zaczyna pojmować prawdziwe znaczenie wzniosłego języka, jakim zwraca się do Boga.”
- #wikiquote
- #saying
- #undated
- #lang:pl
“Idee nie umierają (…); drzemią czasem, ale budzą się jeszcze silniejsze.”
- #wikiquote
- #saying
- #undated
- #lang:pl
“Każdy ma swoją namiętność, co zżera mu serce, niby robak miąższ owocu (…).”
- #wikiquote
- #saying
- #undated
- #lang:pl
“Bóg życzy sobie, abyśmy go rozumieli i zastanawiali się nad jego potęgą: dlatego dał nam wolną wolę.”
- #wikiquote
- #saying
- #undated
- #lang:pl
“Il y a une femme dans toutes les affaires ; aussitôt qu'on me fait un rapport, je dis : «Cherchez la femme !”
- #wikiquote
- #saying
- #undated
- #lang:en
- #lang:it
- #multi-edition
“Ten, kto urodził się w purpurze i nigdy nic nie pragnął (...) — nie wie, jakim szczęściem jest życie; tak samo jak nigdy nie docenił czystego błękitu ten, czyje życie nie było zdane na łaskę czterech desek miotanych falami wzburzonego morza.”
- #wikiquote
- #saying
- #undated
- #lang:pl
“Milczenie jest ostatnią rozkoszą nieszczęśliwych.”
- #wikiquote
- #saying
- #undated
- #lang:pl
“Najbardziej samolubną namiętnością jest miłość.”
- #wikiquote
- #saying
- #undated
- #lang:pl
“Tous pour un, un pour tous. (fr.)”
- #wikiquote
- #saying
- #undated
- #lang:pl
“Opis: rozmyślenia Ludwika XIV.”
- #wikiquote
- #saying
- #undated
- #lang:pl
“Opis: po nieudanym zamachu stanu.”
- #wikiquote
- #saying
- #undated
- #lang:pl
“Translation: The chains of wedlock are so heavy that it takes two to carry them; sometimes three.”
- #wikiquote
- #saying
- #undated
- #lang:en
“Otóż kobiety, tak znakomicie umiejące prowadzić wojnę podjazdową, zawsze bywają mniej zręczne i mniej silne, kiedy trzeba przyjąć otwartą bitwę.”
- #wikiquote
- #saying
- #undated
- #lang:pl
“W chorobie zwanej miłością na początku ataki gorączki zdarzają się w coraz to krótszych okresach.Później te ataki stają się coraz rzadsze, w miarę jak się zbliża ozdrowienie.”
- #wikiquote
- #saying
- #undated
- #lang:pl
“Cała mądrość życia w tej jedynie mieści się prawdzie – czekać i mieć nadzieję.”
- #wikiquote
- #saying
- #undated
- #lang:pl
“Cóż to jest historia? To gwóźdź, na którym wieszam moje powieści.”
- #wikiquote
- #saying
- #undated
- #lang:pl
“Dlaczego dzieci są takie inteligentne, a dorośli przeważnie nie? Widocznie przez chodzenie do szkoły.”
- #wikiquote
- #saying
- #undated
- #lang:pl
1869· 1 entry
Dumas had nearly finished it before his death
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1861· 1 entry
Founded and published the newspaper L'Indépendant, which supported Italian unification
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1851· 2 entries
Dumas fell from favour and left France for Belgium, where he stayed for several years
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
To Brussels, Belgium, which was also an effort to escape his creditors
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1846· 1 entry
Had built a country house outside Paris at Le Port-Marly, the large Château de Monte-Cristo, with an additional building for his writing studio
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1843· 1 entry
Wrote the short novel Georges, which addressed some of the issues of race and the effects of colonialism
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1840· 1 entry
Career landmark: president of the Société des gens de lettres (1840–1840).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #milestone
1838· 1 entry
Dumas rewrote one of his plays as a successful serial historical novel, Le Capitaine Paul ('Captain Paul'), partly based on the life of the Scottish-American naval officer John Paul Jones
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1837· 1 entry
Awarded Knight of the Legion of Honour (1837).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #award
- #achievement
1830· 1 entry
Dumas participated in the Revolution that ousted Charles X and replaced him with Dumas's former employer, the Duke of Orléans, who ruled as Louis-Philippe, the Citizen King
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1829· 1 entry
When he was 27 years old, met with acclaim
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1824· 1 entry
Alexandre Dumas, fils (1824–1895), son of Marie-Laure-Catherine Labay (1794–1868), a dressmaker.
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #life
- #personal-life
1802· 2 entries
Born 1802-07-24.
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #birth
In Villers-Cotterêts in the department of Aisne, in Picardy, France
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event