Alexandre Dumas born in France in 1802 is one of the most widely read French authors in
history. His novels of high adventure have been translated into nearly 100 languages and made
into more than 200 movies. A very prolific author Dumas's published works total more than
100000 pages.
He died in 1870 and was buried in his birthplace of Villers-Cotterêts. In 2002 the bicentennial of
his birth he was reinterred in the mausoleum of the Panthéon in Paris.