"A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself."
                                                                      – Alexandre Dumas

About Alexandre Dumas

Popular French author Alexandre Dumas was famed for his adventure stories, including The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo. He was born in 1802 near Paris. His mulatto father was a general in the French Army who died young, leaving his family destitute. Dumas began as a playwright, but newspapers were eager for serialized fiction, so he adapted a play into his first novel. He died in 1870; in 2002 his body was moved to the Pantheon to recognize his role in French literature.