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3 unusual facts about Dumas


Cadets de Gascogne

The regiment was apparently considered romantic and swashbuckling since it appealed to authors and in particular was used in both Cyrano de Bergerac and the original Three Musketeers by Dumas.

Dumas, Arkansas

The local Dumas police stated on CNN that "the feed mill was the local employer and now it is gone".

Edward Canfor-Dumas

His first major feature-length programme was Tough Love, a powerful drama about police corruption, starring Ray Winstone.


Albert Gaspard Grimod

Their daughter Ida Grimaud d'Orsay married Antoine, 9th duc de Gramont in 1818, and became mother of Antoine, 10th duc de Gramont, a lover of Marie Duplessis, on whose life was based the roman à clef, La Dame aux camélias, by Dumas, fils.

Alexandre Dumas, fils

The couple had two daughters: Marie-Alexandrine-Henriette Dumas, born 20 November 1860, who married Maurice Lippmann and was the mother of Serge Napoléon Lippmann (1886–1975) and Auguste Alexandre Lippmann (1881–1960); and Jeanine Dumas (3 May 1867 – 1943), who married Ernest d' Hauterive (1864–1957), son of George Lecourt d' Hauterive and his wife Léontine de Leusse.

Ascanio

Saint-Saëns chose the subject of the historical figure of Benvenuto Cellini largely due to his friendship with Meurice who, in addition to writing the play about Cellini, also helped Dumas write the 1843 novel.

C'est La Mort

1 LP compilation record, Woody Dumas began his Dr. Death radio show on KLSU in December of 1983.

Christian Skolmen

Christian Skolmen (born 28 October 1970) is a Norwegian actor and voice actor who has been part of the Nationaltheatret since 1995, where he has appeared in The Pretenders (Ibsen), the Three Musketeers (Dumas) and Bakkantinnene (Euripides).

D'Artagnan Romances

Dumas based the life and character of d'Artagnan on the 17th-century captain of musketeers Charles de Batz-Castelmore, Comte d'Artagnan, and Dumas's portrayal was indebted to the semi-fictionalized memoirs of d'Artagnan written 27 years after the hero's death by Gatien de Courtilz de Sandras (published in 1700).

De Winter

Milady de Winter, antagonist in the novel The Three Musketeers (1844) by Alexandre Dumas

Deweare

The album was also mixed by Carl Bastien, who has worked with many Québécois artists such as Daniel Bélanger, Dumas and Jean-Pierre Ferland.

Dumas House

Dumas House is an example of the Post-War International style of architecture, with a modular grid building plan, glazed panelling and an open piazza.

Everything's Tuesday

"Everything's Tuesday" is a song and single produced by Holland-Dozier-Holland and written by them (using the pseudonym Edyth Wayne) with Daphne Dumas and Ron Dunbar and performed by American group, Chairmen of the Board.

Firoozeh Dumas

As a result of Funny in Farsi's success, Firoozeh Dumas was nominated for the Thurber Prize for American Humor.

At the age of seven, Dumas and her family moved to Whittier, California.

Georges Dumas

Georges Dumas (6 March 1866 – 12 February 1946, Lédignan) was a French doctor and psychologist.

Giada Trebeschi

From very early stage she was a ravenous reader and her father encouraged this attitude feeding her hunger with many different genres so that at the age of twelve she already had read, among others, Hemingway’s The old man and the sea, nearly all Emilio Salgari and Jules Verne novels, Dumas’s The Three Musketeers and Italo Calvino’s The Cloven Viscount, The nonexistent Knight and The Baron in the Trees.

Gilbert Whitehand

In the 1840 story by Pierce Egan the Younger (translated into French, divided into two parts and resumed by Alexandre Dumas, published posthumously in 1872) Gilbert and his wife Margaret are Robin's foster parents (his real father according to the Egan/Dumas storyline was the Earl of Huntingdon), and Gilbert taught Robin how to use the bow and arrow.

Giuseppe Ferrandino

Other successful novels have been published by Ferrandino, among which Spada (Sword) (2007), a reprise of Dumas' Three Musketeers.

Guillaume-Mathieu Dumas

Recalled to his native country when Bonaparte became First Consul (1799), Dumas took over the organisation of the "Army of Reserve" at Dijon.

Heinrich Daniel Ruhmkorff

Intended for use by miners, the lamp was actually developed both by Alphonse Dumas, an engineer at the iron mines of Saint-Priest and of Lac, near Privas, in the départment of Ardèche, France, and by Dr. Camille Benoît, a medical doctor in Privas.

Henry Dumas

It was here that he met fellow teacher and poet Eugene Redmond, forming a close collaborative relationship that would prove so integral to Dumas's posthumous career.

Jerry Dumas

Apart from his work with Walker, Dumas also worked on other comic strips like Benchley with Mort Drucker and Rabbits Rafferty and McCall of the Wild with Mel Crawford.

Born in Detroit, Dumas started drawing cartoons when he was nine years old.

Joachim Neugroschel

Neugroschel translated more than 200 books of numerous authors, including Sholem Aleichem, Bergelson, Chekhov, Dumas, Hesse, Kafka, Mann, Moliere, Maupassant, Proust, Schweitzer, Singer and modern writers such as Ernst Jünger, Elfriede Jelinek and Tahar Ben Jelloun.

KDDD

KDDD-FM, a radio station (95.3 FM) licensed to Dumas, Texas, United States

Leo Berman

Another Berman target was former Representative David Swinford, a Republican from Dumas in Moore County in the Texas Panhandle, the outgoing chairman of the House State Affairs Committee.

Marie Bonaparte-Wyse

She maintained friendships with Hugo, Sue, Dumas and others, including Lajos Kossuth, Alphonse de Lamartine, Félicité Robert de Lamennais, Henri Rochefort, Tony Revillon, and the United States minister to Sardinia, John Moncure Daniel.

Marlene Dumas

As a student of painting at the University of Cape Town’s Michaelis School of Fine Art during the early 1970s, Dumas gained exposure to the decade’s preoccupation with conceptualism and art theory.

Pascale Mussard

She and Pierre-Alexis Dumas, who is 12 years her junior, had been successful in dismissing the naysayers’ claim that the brand would fall from grace when her uncle and Pierre-Alexis’s father, Jean-Louis Dumas, died in 2010.

Phil Baxter

Another song, "I'm a Ding Dong Daddy from Dumas" was successfully recorded by many artists, including Sidney Bechet, Bennie Moten, Arthur Godfrey and Louis Armstrong.

Philippe Tailliez

He was awarded, again together with Cousteau and Dumas, the CIDALC Prize at the 1946 Cannes Film Festival for their film Epaves (shipwrecks).

Pierre-Alexis Dumas

Pierre-Alexis Dumas (4 June 1966) is the artistic director of Hermès International.

Beginning in September 1991, Dumas spent eight months in the factory managed by a branch of the Ratti family in Como, Italy, where silk has been spun since the 19th century.

Russell Dumas

After retirement, Dumas joined the Weld Club, became director of several companies and was an advisor to Sir Charles Court.

Dumas was responsible for extensive land development in the district governed by the Albany Zone Development Committee, and negotiated the establishment of an oil refinery, steel rolling mill and cement works at Kwinana.

A bronze plaque with Dumas's name was laid in the footpath of St Georges Terrace, Perth as part of the WAY 1979 celebrations to commemorate 150 notable figures in Western Australia's history.

The Three Musketeers: One for all!

The game, which features two-dimensional movement through a cartoonish three-dimensional environment, is loosely based on the Dumas classic The Three Musketeers.

The Werewolf of Paris

The novel is filled with allusions to notable historical figures including Bismarck, Blanqui, Courbet, Dumas, Haussmann, and Thiers.

Whitley Warriors

1990-1991 Hilton Ruggles, Claude Dumas, Brad Hyatt, Daryl Evans, Steve Chartrand & Blaine Peerless


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