La Femme au collier de velours
À propos de cet e-book
Cette impression venait d’un rêve.
Je sautai en bas de mon cadre, je passai un pantalon à pieds, je montai sur le pont et je regardai en face et autour de moi.
J’espérais que le merveilleux paysage qui se déroulait sous mes yeux allait distraire mon esprit de cette préoccupation, d’autant plus obstinée, qu’elle avait une cause moins réelle.
Fruit d’une sélection réalisée au sein des fonds de la Bibliothèque nationale de France, Collection XIX a pour ambition de faire découvrir des textes classiques et moins classiques dans les meilleures éditions du XIXe siècle.
À propos de l'auteur
Alexandre Dumas was born on July 24, 1802 in Villers-Cotterets northeast of Paris, France. His paternal grandfather was a French nobleman and his paternal grandmother was a black slave from Santo Dominque, which is now part of Haiti. The father Thomas was a general in Napoleon’s army and fell into disfavor, rendering his family impoverished. General Dumas died in 1806 when Alexandre was four years old leaving his mother to raise him under difficult circumstances. Even though Alexandre had little education, he loved books and read whatever he could. His mother’s stories of his father’s adventures spurred his imagination. After the restoration of the monarchy, twenty-year-old Alexandre moved to Paris and worked for Palais Royal . He wrote articles for magazine as well as plays. At age 25 Alexandre had his first success as a playwright with the play Henry III and his Court. He wrote hundreds of books, so many in fact, that he had other writers assist him. Dumas married in 1840. A son named after him followed in his footsteps. Alexandre made and lost several fortunes with his writing and after years of traveling and writing, he died a poor man on December 5, 1870. The most famous of his works was The Three Musketeers followed by The Count of Monte Cristo.
