There are some situations which men understand by instinct, by which reason is powerless to explain; in such cases the greatest poet is he who gives utterance to the most natural and vehement outburst of sorrow. Those who hear the bitter cry are as much impressed as if they listened to an entire poem, and when th sufferer is sincere they are right in regarding his outburst as sublime.

a. Until the mid-1830s life in France remained unsettled with sporadic riots by disgruntled Republicans and impoveriAlexandre Dumasd urban workers seeking change. Works


Fiction
Alexandre Dumas wrote numerous stories and historical chronicles of high adventure.

vi‿d. In 1861 he founded and publiAlexandre Dumasd the newspaper L' Indipendente which supported the Italian unification effort. Among his affairs in 1866 Dumas had one with Adah Isaacs Menken an American actress then at the height of her career and less than half his age.