Alexander Dumas-son: biography, personal life and creativity

Alexander Dumas-son lived a long creative, rich life, in which there was a place for literary work and stormy novels. He is known to us for the work "The Lady with the Camellias." The great Giuseppe Verdi composed the opera La Traviata, based on the novel that Dumas-son wrote. She led to a quarrel between the composer and the writer, as the musician did not consider it necessary to ask permission to use the novel as a libretto.

Frivolous father

Twenty-two-year-old thoughtless Alexander Dumas-father served in the office of the Duke of Orleans, as he had a remarkable handwriting. He for a while linked his personal life with the seamstress Katrina Labe, pretty, neat and quiet. When the poor thing began to stir up in the morning, it was very upsetting for the young Alexander, because he was not ready for either marriage or the appearance of a child. Extra physical and physical cares were not required. July 28, 1824, Catherine gave birth to a boy who was christened in honor of his father, Alexander. She treated the baby with great tenderness and affection. But the priest was by this time looking for new muses for inspiration. About his son he remembered only seven years later, he sued him, adopted him and sent him to a boarding school for nine years to get an education. Katrina Labe, to have money for life, began to contain a small reading room.

Growing up

The boy suffered from being an illegitimate son for so long. When he grew up and turned into a young man, then, as a shrewd person, he understood the light-hearted, non-malicious nature of his father. Dumas-son began to perceive his father as a great companion, a great writer and a bad father. The insults have passed, and the relationship between them has improved. Charming, good-natured, generous, when money was born, that was Alexander Dumas-father, and his son loved him as an unreasonable child, and not as an adult man aged for years, who often had a funny sum of one hundred francs at home. They loved each other, but, unfortunately, they could not live together, because they often quarreled. This will last a lifetime. The young man decided that he would be well off. He also had a literary gift, but firmly decided to write otherwise.

Appearance

He was a handsome tall young man with broad shoulders and dreamy eyes. His posture betrayed his proud nature. At twenty years old he was full of strength and health, his light chestnut curly hair opened his face with the right attractive features. Accounts to the tailor for the cloth fashionable frock coat, for the snow-white tie and vests from the peak, brought from England, remained unpaid, but it did not bother him. Dumas-son was haughty, witticisms poured out of him, but behind such a "facade" was a sensitive nature, which he received from his mother.

Alfonsine Plessis

In the autumn of 1844, at the theater, he saw in the box all recognized beauties, courtesans. This divine vision resembled a porcelain figurine: high growth, dark curls along a white-pink face, scarlet cherry lips that concealed perfect teeth, eyes as if made of black enamel, narrow waist. This perfection was complemented by an exquisite white outfit of satin, diamonds and gold. In Paris, the most brilliant men taught her good manners and the ability to maintain conversation. He called herself Marie Duplessis and was the most elegant woman in the capital. Her house was a fortress of camellias, colors without a smell, which she filled up the fans. Why did the wealthy woman choose her poor friends for close friends? He skillfully picked up the key to the suffering woman's soul, and she opened to him. He comforted her when he saw tears in a mask of fun. He respected her as a woman, and for her sake she left all the rich admirers. But his poverty and her frivolous attitude toward money led to the separation in a year.

Death of Mari

Alexander went on a long trip and did not know that his beloved's health was rapidly deteriorating. She was only twenty-three years old, and she was dying of consumption. She sold all her jewelry to get treatment, but nothing helped. February 3, 1847 Marie died. Dumas-son learned about this when he returned to Marseilles from Algeria. He re-read all of Marie's letters with deep love, never left his heart, and wrote the novel "The Lady with the Camellias." Dumas-son made the heroine of the novel the fallen woman Margarita Gauthier, but the hero's attempts to turn her towards virtue, her lover's father's visit, renunciation of him, so as not to ruin the brilliant future of the young man, the sale of jewelry, horses and all other luxury items of the repentant woman, Alexander invented.

A touching romantic novel was a success, especially in women. Those who knew Marie, finally realized that selling herself for money, the unhappy endlessly suffered from sincere feelings that did not depend on money.

In 4 years the author was offered to write a novel based on the novel, which turned out to be exceptionally long. The action on the stage began at 18 o'clock and ended only at night, at 3 o'clock. After the premiere, fervent admirers filled the author with bouquets of flowers, women wept and hugged him.

So in 1852 Alexander Dumas, Jr. became very popular in France. Now everyone knew his name. He was very respectful of women and did not hide from them that he did not want easy relations, which are not binding on anything, but seeks to create a real friendly and strong family.

Lady with pearls

Dumas-son received all the pleasures from the ladies of the half-light. In high society ladies behaved with the writer strictly. Dumas-son, whose personal life could not enter into a serious, sensible rut, in 25 years met a young Russian lady from St. Petersburg, who spent in Paris free from a bored wife time. It was Countess Lydia Nesselrode.

Her mother-in-law was worried if her charming daughter-in-law was going to spin herself. She spent a lot of money on pleasures and luxurious toilets, and then she wanted to charm the fashionable writer. Naturally, he could not resist and was subdued. Lydia loved pearls and wore it in a hairstyle made of black hair, on a gentle neck, on lovely pens, and received from her lover the nickname "lady with pearls." This relationship has become the subject of discussion and gossip.

Lydia was immediately summoned to Russia. Dumas went after her. But he returned because of a lack of money, and Lydia did not send not only letters, but also notes. She just forgot about him. In 1852, he learned about this from another Russian beauty - Princess Nadezhda Naryshkina, who was destined to take in his life a great place. And while he wrote a novel in which he paid off with the infidel Lydia, and called him "Lady with Pearls."

Escape to Paris

Hope was given to a very young wife for the old prince. From 26 years old she fled to Paris and did not forget to take with her both jewelry and daughter, explaining that the Russian climate is harmful to her health. She, carried away by the writer, asked the prince to give her a divorce, but her husband refused. This was supported by his emperor. For six years the three of them lived in a villa, which Naryshkina bought.

During this period, the writer often quarreled with his father, reproaching him for not having brought him up well. On this subject he wrote plays "The illegitimate son", "The Prodigal Father", and at the same time he saw in his father the best friend. At the same time, he did not understand his princess with the color of the sea wave: the conditions that had brought them up were too different. They had a daughter Maria-Alexandrina in 1860. In 1864, when the old Naryshkin died, they were married, and they had another daughter Zhannina in 1867. After this, the character of Nadezhda Ivanovna became impossible suspicious and disgusting. She suspected a handsome man of adultery and made scandals. In the end, the writer was tired and really got on an affair on the side, without getting divorced from his wife. And in 1870, Dumas-father was gone. His son buried him in his homeland in Villa Cotra, which the author of the novels of a raincoat and sword loved very much.

Aime Decle

She grew up in a wealthy bourgeois family and received a good upbringing. Her father, a lawyer, was ruined, and her daughter decided that she could shine on stage. But the work did not go, then she became a woman, because she did not have any beauty. Witty, which was quoted throughout Paris, she again returned to the theater and traveled almost all of Europe. She conquered Italy, Brussels. With Dumas, Eme first met at a costume ball. Dumas saw her playing abroad and believed that she was talented and beautiful. He insisted that she be taken to the troupe in Paris. The debut was triumphal. On the basis of common interests (still Dumas son of the work wrote for the theater) they fell in love with each other, although they hid it from themselves. When Aime did not have performances, she lived alone outside the city. Her company was a poodle, a parrot and an old servant of Caesar. Her independence was burdensome, but she did not want unlawful ties.

Morally it was supported by the playwright. He gave her a role in the play "The Wedding Guest", wrote for her "Wife of Claudius", "Princess George". In his books he tried to resolve moral problems between a man and a woman. His brochure on this topic has made a lot of noise. Now a new play has already been written for Dekle "Mister Alphonse". But she felt sick, her doctors found signs of cancer. When she died in 1874, she was buried all over Paris.

The play was staged, another actress played in it, and the language was enriched with a new word "gigolo", which began to denote a man living at the expense of a woman (a corrupt man, a pimp).

French Academy

In life, Alexander Dumas-son became a wealthy man and a recognized classic. It remained to work for small. He was persuaded to apply to the Academy. In 1875, on February 11, he was ranked among the "immortals". He was quite worthy of this title. Here are the works that Alexander Dumas-son wrote. The books "Tristan Red" (historical novel), "Regent Moustel" (novel), the novels "Lady with Pearls", "The Case of Clemenceau", "Doctor Servan", "Roman of a Woman" touched on significant social issues and explored the souls of heroes. Together with George Sand he wrote the Marquis de Villiers and gave her his rights. In addition, he worked a lot and successfully as a playwright. In this capacity, his talent was highly appreciated by both the public and his father. He was also a great publicist, who published a lot of topical pamphlets.

Last marriage

On the flight of life Alexander Dumas-son decided to a second marriage with Madame Henrietta Escalier, with whom he maintained relations since 1887. She was younger than him for forty years. They were married after Naryshkina's death in July 1895, and after four months he passed away.

Conclusion

He is buried in the cemetery of Montmartre in Paris, a hundred meters from Marie Duplessis, the only woman he loved. He remembered her all his life and bristally regretted his first marriage.