Perhaps what I am about to say will appear strange to you gentlemen, socialists, progressives, humanitarians as you are, but I never worry about my neighbor, I never try to protect society which does not protect me -- indeed, I might add, which generally takes no heed of me except to do me harm -- and, since I hold them low in my esteem and remain neutral towards them, I believe that society and my neighbor are in my debt.

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.