In May 2007 the executor of his widow's estate, French foreign minister Roland Dumas, was convicted of illegally selling Giacometti's works to a top auctioneer.

In April, the officers were acquitted of all charges, and on 9 May 1831, a banquet was held in their honor, with many illustrious people present, such as Alexandre Dumas.

As to his opponent in the duel, Alexandre Dumas names Pescheux d ' Herbinville, one of the nineteen artillery officers whose acquittal was celebrated at the banquet that occasioned Galois ' first arrest and du Motel's fiancé.

However, Dumas is alone in this assertion, and extant newspaper clippings from only a few days after the duel give a description of his opponent that more accurately applies to one of Galois ' Republican friends, most probably Ernest Duchatelet, who was imprisoned with Galois on the same charges.

The latter was based on Alexandre Dumas, fils ' play The Lady of the Camellias, and became the most popular of all Verdi's operas, placing first in the Operabase list of most performed operas worldwide.

Straddle-jumper Charles Dumas was the first to clear 2. 13 m ( or 7 feet ) in 1956, and American John Thomas pushed the world mark to in 1960.

This event was immortalized in Alexandre Dumas ' novel The Vicomte de Bragelonne, part of the D ' Artagnan Romances ( D ' Artagnan is one of the Mousquetaires du Roi, or Three Musketeers, in this series ).

The Willis Building ( Ipswich ) | Willis Faber and Dumas Headquarters in Ipswich was one of Foster's earliest commissions after founding Foster Associates.

Foster and Partners ' breakthrough building in the UK was the Willis Faber & Dumas headquarters in Ipswich, of 1974.

* The Lady of the Camellias was a novel about a courtesan by French author Alexandre Dumas, fils that was turned into the opera La Traviata by Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi.

The result was editions of Alexandre Dumas ' adventure books.

" The funeral was attended by " almost every writer in Paris ", including Frédérick Lemaître, Gustave Courbet, Dumas père and Dumas fils.

This was followed by revivals of Racine's Phèdre ( 24 February ), Octave Feuillet's Dalila ( 8 March ), Gaston de Wailly's Patron Bénic ( 14 March ), Edmond Rostand's La Samaritaine ( 25 March ), and Alexandre Dumas fils's La Dame aux Camélias on 9 April.

Zola was initially buried in the Cimetière de Montmartre in Paris but on 4 June 1908, almost six years after his death, his remains were moved to the Panthéon, where he shares a crypt with Victor Hugo and Alexandre Dumas.

On Berlioz's return to Paris, a concert including Symphonie fantastique ( which had been extensively revised in Italy ) and Le retour à la vie was performed, with among others in attendance: Victor Hugo, Alexandre Dumas, Heinrich Heine, Niccolò Paganini, Franz Liszt, Frédéric Chopin, George Sand, Alfred de Vigny, Théophile Gautier, Jules Janin and Harriet Smithson.

A proposal was made to remove his remains to the Panthéon, and while initially encouraged by French President Jacques Chirac, it was postponed by him, claimed to be because it was too shortly after Alexandre Dumas was moved there.

Berlioz was on the verge of producing his most Romantic works — as were the writers Vigny, Dumas, Gautier and several others in attendance that night.

In 1829, he became a professor of physics at the École Centrale des Arts et Manufactures that was being founded by the businessman Alphonse Lavallée, by Péclet, and by three other scientists, Philippe Benoît, Jean-Baptiste Dumas and Théodore Olivier.

After performing in various European capitals, she settled in Paris, where she was accepted in the rather Bohemian literary society of the time, being acquainted with Alexandre Dumas, père, with whom she was rumoured to have had a dalliance.

Author Alexandre Dumas, père possessed one-fourth black Haitian descent, and Empress Josephine Napoleon who was born and raised in the French West Indies from a plantation estate family.

* W. W. Dumas, Mayor-President of East Baton Rouge Parish from 1965 – 1980, was born in Opelousas in 1916.

Donald Wildmon, the head of the American Family Association was born in Dumas 18 January 1938.

One of four males born in a litter of English Beagles, Porthos and his brothers, Athos, Aramis and d ' Artagnan, were named after characters from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, père.

Dumas was born in Paris, France, the illegitimate child of Marie-Laure-Catherine Labay ( 1794-1868 ), a dressmaker, and novelist Alexandre Dumas.

The couple had two daughters: Marie-Alexandrine-Henriette Dumas, born 20 November 1860, who married Maurice Lippmann and was the mother of Serge Napoléon Lippmann ( 1886 – 1975 ) and Auguste Alexandre Lippmann ( 1881 – 1960 ); and Jeanine Dumas ( 3 May 1867 – 1943 ), who married Ernest d ' Hauterive ( 1864 – 1957 ), son of George Lecourt d ' Hauterive and his wife Léontine de Leusse.

* November 27-Alexandre Dumas, fils, French novelist and dramatist ( born 1824 )

* June 7-Louise de la Vallière, later the subject of a novel by Alexandre Dumas, père ( born 1644 )

René d ' Aramis de Vannes ( born René d ' Herblay ) is a fictional character in the novels The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After and The Vicomte de Bragelonne by Alexandre Dumas, père.

Amy Christine Dumas ( born April 14, 1975 ), best known by her stage name Lita, is the lead singer for the band The Luchagors as well as a retired professional wrestler and WWE Diva active from 1999 to 2006.

* Franck Dumas ( born 1968 ), footballer and coach Stade Malherbe de Caen

Auch is known for its Renaissance Cathédrale Sainte-Marie with its magnificent organ, carved stalls and rose stained-glass windows, La Tour d ' Armagnac – a 14th century prison, as well as a statue of d ' Artagnan who was based on the real life person, Charles de Batz, Comte d ' Artagnan born nearby in the château de Castelmore, and written about by Alexandre Dumas.

* Roland Dumas ( born 1922 ), French politician

Wildmon was born in Dumas, Mississippi, the son of Johnnie Bernice ( née Tigrett ), a schoolteacher, and Ellis Clifton Wildmon, a civil servant.

The French author Alexandre Dumas was the son of a French mulatto general ( born in Saint-Domingue but educated by his father in France ) and his French wife.

* Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, a general of the French Revolutionary Wars, was born in Jérémie as the son of a French nobleman and his mixed-race slave, before independence.

Marlene Dumas ( born 3 August 1953 ) is a South African born artist and painter who lives and works in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Frédéric Dumas was born on 14 January 1913 in Albi.

Dumarsais Mécène Siméus ( also Dumas Siméus ), born

* A baldric features prominently in Chapter 4 of Alexandre Dumas, père's The Three Musketeers, in which D ' Artagnan has his nearly-disastrous first encounters with Porthos ( who is wearing one ), Aramis, and Athos.

The two neighbors took the first ex-aequo prize of the Congress of Documentary Film in 1943, for the first French underwater film: Par dix-huit mètres de fond ( 18 meters deep ), made without breathing apparatus the previous year in the Embiez islands ( Var ) with Philippe Tailliez and Frédéric Dumas, using a depth-pressure-proof camera case developed by mechanical engineer Léon Vèche ( engineer of Arts and Métiers and the Naval College ).

It is based on La dame aux Camélias ( 1852 ), a play adapted from the novel by Alexandre Dumas, fils.

Alexandre Dumas, père mentions of Pentecost in Twenty Years After ( French: Vingt ans après ), the sequel to The Three Musketeers.

However, sword and sorcery's immediate progenitors are the swashbuckling tales of Alexandre Dumas, père ( The Three Musketeers ( 1844 ), etc.

On 30 November 2002, in an elaborate but solemn procession, six Republican Guards carried the coffin of Alexandre Dumas ( 1802 – 1870 ), the author of The Three Musketeers, to the Panthéon.

* Alexandre Dumas, fils ( 1824 – 1895 ), novelist, playwright

* Alexandre Dumas, père's novels: La Reine Margot ( 1845 ), La Dame de Monsoreau ( 1846 ) and Les quarante-cinq ( 1847 ).

* The French movies La Reine Margot ( 1954 ) and La Reine Margot ( 1994 ), both based on Alexandre Dumas, père's novel of the same title, are fictional depictions of the lives of Henry III's family, his sister Margot, and her Protestant husband Henry around the time of the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre.

* Athos ( fictional character ), one of the title characters in the novel The Three Musketeers ( 1844 ) by Alexandre Dumas ( père ), indirectly named from the village

Alexandre Dumas wrote a set of three plays that collectively told the story of The Count of Monte Cristo: Monte Cristo ( 1848 ), Le Comte de Morcerf ( 1851 ), and Villefort ( 1851 ).

One should also note Paul Féval, père's La Fille du Juif Errant ( 1864 ), which combines several fictional Wandering Jews, both heroic and evil, and Alexandre Dumas ' incomplete Isaac Laquedem ( 1853 ), a sprawling historical saga.

* Dumas Malone, Jefferson and His Time: ( Little, Brown, 1948 – 1981 ), six volumes

Dictionary of American Biography, by Johnson, Allen and Malone, Dumas ( editors ), Volume 14, Pages 588-589.

Image: Louis Duma IMG_0592. JPG |< center > Louis Dumas ( 1856 – 1923 ), the founder of Dumas, ca.