A French writer, best known for his numerous historical novels of high adventure which have made him one of the most widely read French authors in the world. Many of his novels, including The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After, and The Vicomte de Bragelonne were serialized. He also wrote plays and magazine articles and was a prolific correspondent. (From Wikipedia.)
De l'immense production pseudo-historique de ce fécond écrivain, un récit (1842) qui tourne autour de la reine Marie-Antoinette à la veille d'être décoiffée.