Page of the Duke of Savoy

By universal consent Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870), also known as Dumas pere, is now acknowledged the most entertaining of the French writers of romance. For variety of incidents, sprightliness of dialogue, and vividness of narrative no tales of adventure can compete with such works as The Three Musketeers or the Count of Monte Cristo. It is doubtful also, whether the life of any novelist comes as near as the life of Alexandre Dumas to what is expected of an entertaining work of fiction. Viewed as a hero of romance, the great novelist is almost as striking a figure as his picturesque and fascinating D'Artagnan, so that his Memoirs and the numerous volumes in which he relates the story of his travels seem to differ from his other narrative works only in the use, for the hero, of the first instead of the third person of the verb.Dumas, Alexandre is the author of 'Page of the Duke of Savoy', published 2000 under ISBN 9780594030218 and ISBN 0594030218.