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The Borgias
Dumas, Alexandre
Published: 1840
Type(s): History
Source:
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About Dumas:
Alexandre Dumas, père, born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie (July 24,
1802 – December 5, 1870) was a French writer, best known for his numer-
ous historical novels of high adventure which have made him one of the
most widely read French authors in the world. Many of his novels, in-
cluding The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers, and The Man
in the Iron Mask were serialized, and he also wrote plays and magazine
articles and was a prolific correspondent. Source: Wikipedia
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Introduction
The contents of these volumes of 'Celebrated Crimes', as well as the
motives which led to their inception, are unique. They are a series of
stories based upon historical records, from the pen of Alexandre Dumas,
pere, when he was not "the elder," nor yet the author of D'Artagnan or
Monte Cristo, but was a rising young dramatist and a lion in the literary
set and world of fashion.
Dumas, in fact, wrote his 'Crimes Celebres' just prior to launching
upon his wonderful series of historical novels, and they may therefore be
considered as source books, whence he was to draw so much of that far-
reaching and intimate knowledge of inner history which has perennially
astonished his readers. The Crimes were published in Paris, in 1839-40,
in eight volumes, comprising eighteen titles—all of which now appear in
the present carefully translated text. The success of the original work was
instantaneous. Dumas laughingly said that he thought he had exhausted
the subject of famous crimes, until the work was off the press, when he
immediately became deluged with letters from every province in France,
supplying him with material upon other deeds of violence! The subjects
which he has chosen, however, are of both historic