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Alexandre Dumas

1802 to 1870 7 documented presences 5 places

Quo Fuit places 7 dated presences for Alexandre Dumas across 5 places, from 1802 to 1864. Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.

Alexandre Dumas (born Alexandre Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie; 24 July 1802 – 5 December 1870), also known as Alexandre Dumas, was a French novelist and playwright.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
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Where Alexandre Dumas was documented, and when

1802year
Villers-Cotterêtsattested “Alexandre Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie (later known as Alexandre Dumas) was born in 1802 in Villers-Cotterêts in the department of Aisne, in Picardy, France.” source: Wikipedia: Alexandre Dumas
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Picardyattested “Alexandre Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie (later known as Alexandre Dumas) was born in 1802 in Villers-Cotterêts in the department of Aisne, in Picardy, France.” source: Wikipedia: Alexandre Dumas
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Le Port-Marlyattested “(Scholars have found that he had a total of 40 mistresses.) In 1846, he had built a country house outside Paris at Le Port-Marly, the large Château de Monte-Cristo, with an additional building for his writing studio.” source: Wikipedia: Alexandre Dumas
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Parisattested “(Scholars have found that he had a total of 40 mistresses.) In 1846, he had built a country house outside Paris at Le Port-Marly, the large Château de Monte-Cristo, with an additional building for his writing studio.” source: Wikipedia: Alexandre Dumas
1851year
Parisattested “* Henry Bauër (1851–1915), son of Anna Bauër, a German of Jewish faith, wife of Karl-Anton Bauër, an Austrian commercial agent living in Paris * Micaëlla-Clélie-Josepha-Élisabeth Cordier (born 1860), daughter of Emélie Cordier, an actres…” source: Wikipedia: Alexandre Dumas
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Russian Empireattested “In about 1859, he moved to Russia, where French was the second language of the elite and his writings were enormously popular.” source: Wikipedia: Alexandre Dumas
1864year
Parisattested “Returning to Paris in 1864, he published travel books about Italy.” source: Wikipedia: Alexandre Dumas

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Places Alexandre Dumas is documented in

Paris3 presences · 1846 to 1864Russian Empire1 presence · 1859
Le Port-Marly1 presence · 1846
Picardy1 presence · 1802
Villers-Cotterêts1 presence · 1802

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1851year
Brusselsmentioned “As Bonaparte disapproved of the author, Dumas fled in 1851 to Brussels, Belgium, which was also an effort to escape his creditors.” source: Wikipedia: Alexandre Dumas

Documented at the same place, the same year

Giuseppe VerdiParis · 1846Alfred NobelSaint Petersburg · 1859Solomon ibn GabirolParis · 1846Giacomo MeyerbeerParis · 1864Alexander HerzenParis · 1864Georges SorelParis · 1864César FranckParis · 1851Moses HessParis · 1851Élisée ReclusParis · 1851Étienne CabetParis · 1851Anselm FeuerbachParis · 1851

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