For the happy man prayer is only a jumble of words, until the day when sorrow comes to explain to him the sublime language by means of which he speaks to God.

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.