Dumas
ALEXANDRE, the Younger, a French dramatist and romancist, son of the preceding; born in Paris, July 27 or 28, 1824. He published his first romance: "Story of Four Women and a Parrot" (6 vols. 1847), which found little favor.
Among his romances are: "A Woman's Romance"; "Cesarine"; "Camille" (La Dame aux Camélias); all in 1848. His dramas include: "Diana de Lys" (1853), and "The Demi-Monde" (1855). He also wrote the romance, "The Clémenceau Case" (1864), dramatized under the same name; and the dramatic pieces: "The Natural Son" (1858); "The Friend of Women" (1864); "Claude's Wife" (1873); "The Danicheffs" (1876); "Francillon" (1887); and others. He died in Paris, Nov. 28, 1895.