Everyone knows that God protects drunkards and lovers.

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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.