I—TOULON
On the 18th June, 1815, at the very moment when the
destiny of Europe was being decided at Waterloo, a
man dressed like a beggar was silently following the
road from Toulon to Mars...
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Alexandre Dumas (1803-1870), the prolific French author of plays, popular romances, and historical novels, wrote The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo.Alexandre Dumas is generally called ...
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Towards the end of his ebullient and prolific career, Alexandre Dumas took pen in hand not to dash off one more spell-binding drama or history-filled epic, but to complain to the Emperor of rough hand...
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Despite their unflagging worldwide popularity, their perennial availability, and their innumerable cinematographic adaptations, the works of Alexandre Dumas père have been largely unappreciated...
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The dramatic writings of Alexandre Dumas père, long absent from publishers' booklists and often granted little more than la portion congrue (an extremely small place) in critical assessments o...
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Police ended a two-day search of the home of the only suspect in the disappearance of a 4-year-old British girl from a Portuguese hotel three months ago, news reports said Sunday.Throughout the day...
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Lisbon (dpa) - British toddler Madeleine McCann may have died
accidentally in her parents' holiday apartment in the southern
Portuguese resort of Praia da Luz, a Portuguese ...
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London (dpa) - Portuguese police investigating the suspected
abduction of a British child were treating a Briton as a suspect, the
BBC reported Tuesday.
Polic...
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Portuguese police and British detectives returned Saturday to search the home of the only suspect in the disappearance of a 4-year-old British girl who went missing at a resort hotel in Portugal th...
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Forensics experts on Wednesday searched the home of a suspect in the disappearance of 4-year-old Madeleine McCann, while the missing British girl's family said it had been lifted by a "tidal wave o...
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London (dpa) - Portuguese police investigating the abduction of a
British child are assuming four-year-old Madeleine McCann is alive,
the Portuguese newspaper Diario de Noti...
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The parents of a British girl who vanished 20 days ago during a family vacation in Portugal prayed Wednesday at the holy site in Fatima for her safe return.Gerry and Kate McCann were greeted by kis...
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Moscow (dpa) - A relative of the head of the Russian republic of
Ingushetia was abducted Friday, leading to security clampdowns in the
volatile North Caucasus province, Russ...
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London/Lisbon (dpa) - Portuguese forensic experts have found no
evidence against the main suspect in the case of four-year-old
Madeleine McCann, who was abducted from her be...
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Lisbon (dpa) - Portuguese police believe four-year-old British
girl Madeleine McCann died in her parents' holiday apartment instead
of being abducted, and are investigating ...
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