Alexandre Dumas the Younger, French playwright and novelist mb-code U3086RAU Illustration from Our Island Story

Illustration from Our Island Story by H E Marshall

Scene showing Russian firemen jumping from high ladders to be caught in a canvas break

'A Medieval Scene'

Head and shoulders portrait of Taylor Combe

Alexandre Dumas the Younger, French playwright and novelist mb-code U3086RAU Illustration from Our Island StoryAlexandre 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.