There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must of felt what it is to die, Morrel, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life. " Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget, that until the day God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words, 'Wait and Hope.

a. Until the mid-1830s life in France remained unsettled with sporadic riots by disgruntled Republicans and impoveriAlexandre Dumasd urban workers seeking change. Works


Fiction
Alexandre Dumas wrote numerous stories and historical chronicles of high adventure.

vi‿d. In 1861 he founded and publiAlexandre Dumasd the newspaper L' Indipendente which supported the Italian unification effort. Among his affairs in 1866 Dumas had one with Adah Isaacs Menken an American actress then at the height of her career and less than half his age.