Alexandre Dumas the Younger, French playwright and novelist Finish:none A satire on Napoleon Bonaparte

A satire on Napoleon Bonaparte

showing the sinking of a cylinder for one of the stone piers

Design for a (swing) bridge for crossing the Forth and Clyde Canal

carriages and carts

Alexandre Dumas the Younger, French playwright and novelist Finish:none A satire on Napoleon BonaparteAlexandre Dumas the Younger, French playwright and novelist, 1884. Dumas's (1824 1895) novel La dame aux camelias (The Lady of the Camellias) was the basic story for Giuseppe Verdi's opera 'La Traviata' (1853). Dumas also adapted the story into a successful play. A photograph from Album de Photographies dans L'Intimite de Personnages Illustres, 1850 1900, 2nd album, Editions MD, Paris.