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By universal consent Alexandre Dumas 1802 1870 also known as Dumas pere is now acknowledged the most entertaining of the French writers of romance For variety of incidents sprightliness of dialogue and vividness of narrative no tales of adventure can compete with such works as The Three Musketeers or the Count of Monte Cristo It is doubtful also whether the life of any novelist comes as near as the life of Alexandre Dumas to what is expected of an entertaining work of fiction Viewed as a hero of romance the great novelist is almost as striking a figure as his picturesque and fascinating D Artagnan so that his Memoirs and the numerous volumes in which he relates the story of his travels seem to differ from his other narrative works only in the use for the hero of the first instead of the third person of the verb