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Det er årene 1676-79: Kongen i Frankrig er den svage Henri III. Kongens broder, hertug François af Anjou, stræber efter magten, og det samme gør hertugerne af Lothringen. Sammen danner de "Den hellige katolske liga" med det formål at styrke katolicismen mod huguenotterne - og overtage magten i Frankrig. Imens prøver den alvidende hofnar Chicot, som kongen ser op til, at ødelægge deres spil. Midt i dette spil fanges hertug François' undergivne grev de Bussy, "den tapreste af alle franskmænd", og hans elskede Diana, der ved skæbnens ugunst og intriger er blevet gift med Henri III's hofjægermeste

De jonge, avontuurlijke d'Artagnan vormt samen met zijn vrienden Athos, Portos en Aramis de Musketiers, het elitecorps van de Franse koning. De Drie Musketiers is een vurige verhaal vol drama, humor, liefdesaffaires en dodelijk machtsspel aan het Franse hof. Het is de meest bekende en populaire roman van de grote Franse schrijver Alexandre Dumas - op de voet gevolgd door het meer sinistere 'De Graaf van Monte Christo'. Over de romans van Dumas schreef de Britse auteur en historicus Simon Sebag Montefiore: "Ze blijven niet alleen tijdloos, ze zijn ook universeel.

Marguerite Gautier, vom Luxus verwöhnte Mätresse zahlungskräftiger Herren der Gesellschaft, lernt mit dem jungen Armand Duval die echte Liebe kennen. Um seinetwillen ist sie bereit, ihr unmoralisches Leben aufzugeben, um mit ihm ein einfaches Leben auf dem Lande zu beginnen. Wäre da nur nicht Armands Vater, der um die Familienehre fürchtet. Mit seinem 1848 erschienenen Roman setzte Alexandre Dumas dem Typus der sündigen, aber edelmütigen Kurtisane ein literarisches Denkmal.

Le plus étonnant des romans d'amour au temps de la Révolution Française. Un médecin éveille à la vie et à la joie une fillette, une "innocente" : les sentiments les plus tendres s'épanouissent entre eux, mais les jeunes gens sont brutalement séparés. Le médecin se lance alors dans la politique et devient à Paris, au sein de la Convention, le compagnon fidèle du grand Danton. Toute l'épopée de la patrie en danger traverse ce livre où l'amour et la mort éprouvent tour à tour les héros.

Trois années de silence passent alors. Nous retrouvons Mérey au théâtre, à Paris, en 1796. Par hasard, il aperçoit Eva dans une loge. Ils se rencontrent, mais Jacques repousse Eva. Celle-ci, désespérée, se sauve pour aller se jeter dans la Seine... Le docteur se met à sa poursuite, la sauve, mais repousse toujours son amour. Elle offre de devenir sa servante et de lui remettre tous ses biens afin qu'il fonde un hospice dans le château de son père.

"È da una galoppata in senso stretto che ha origine la fortuna della 'Signora delle camelie' e, successivamente, della 'Traviata' di Giuseppe Verdi. Un giorno di settembre del 1844, infatti, di ritorno da una passeggiata a cavallo Alexandre Dumas figlio si recò al teatro parigino dei Variétés, frequentato soprattutto da 'un'aristocrazia della galanteria' composta perlopiù da giovani mantenute e dai loro ricchi protettori. In quel variegato ambiente, quella sera, Dumas figlio incontrò la donna che avrebbe segnato la sua vita e la sua fortuna di romanziere.

Die Königin von Frankreich liebt den Herzog von Buckingham und schenkt ihm zum Andenken ihre Diamantenbrosche. Der König, von Kardinal Richelieu dazu überredet, lädt die Königin zu einem Fest mit der Bitte, dabei jene Brosche zu tragen. Um die Ehre der Königin zu retten, stürzen sich d'Artagnan und die drei Musketiere in ein Abenteuer auf Leben und Tod.

Hosted by Laurence Olivier, these big-name productions also included the creme de la creme of acting talents from John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson and Orson Welles to Trevor Howard, Michael Redgrave and Olivier himself. They were based on works by the world's leading authors, among them Charles Dickens, Henry James, Oscar Wilde and Anton Chekhov. These are but a few of whose company we shall be keeping as we raise the curtain on our first instalment of theatrical history.

In questo racconto lungo Dumas si esprime in una storia romanzata più che in un romanzo storico e narra dell'intrigo che portò all'omicidio, nel 1537, di Alessandro de' Medici, soprannominato il Moro, che aveva iniziato a schiacciare, sotto l'egida del papato, la repubblica fiorentina con tratti sempre più "principeschi", usando sopraffazioni e violenze.

Cos'è accaduto, dopo venti anni, della mitica amicizia dei Tre Moschettieri, poi allargatasi al guascone D'Artagnan, meno nobile ma non meno valoroso, anzi? Come in molti sequel, Dumas si trova a scrivere il suo secondo libro (nel 1845, un anno dopo la pubblicazione dei "Tre Moschettieri"), e riesce a illustrare con acume e non senza humour come la vita ha cambiato i nostri eroi.

Volume Seven of Alexander' Dumas' catalogue of crime features three colourful historical figures. Albanian tyrant Ali Pacha (or Pasha) was a brigand who later became an operative of the Ottoman empire. After extending his territory to include large areas of Greece and Macedonia, and aspiring to become an independent leader, he attracted the enmity of the Sultan and was declared a rebel. He died in battle at the age of 80.

In Volume Four, Dumas relates the 1819 murder of German dramatist August von Kotzebue by Karl Ludwig Sand, the campaign to destroy Father Urbain Grandier in 1634, who was successfully convicted of witchcraft and put to a brutal death, and the consequences of the amorous relationship between the prince of Brancaleone and Nisida.

The prolific Alexandre Dumas, père, first published his famous eight-volume crime series in Paris in 1845. It contained 18 stories which, as the author notes in the introduction, had “the added value of giving the modern reader a clear picture of the state of semi-lawlessness which existed in Europe, during the middle ages.” In Volume 3, Dumas relates the tragic fate of Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, following the death of her husband, Lord Darnley.

In Celebrated Crimes [eight volumes: this version, 1895], Dumas the elder, recognised master of historical fiction (The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers) turns to historical fact. In this volume: Joan of Naples. The much-married queen does what she must to survive ‘the violence and treachery of this barbarous age’. ‘An angel soiled by crime, she lied like Satan himself .’ The Man in The Iron Mask (an essay). How much of the well-known story is fact, and how much fiction?

The prolific Alexandre Dumas, père, first published his famous eight-volume crime series in Paris in 1839-40. It contained 18 stories, which, as the author notes in the introduction, had “the added value of giving the modern reader a clear picture of the state of semi-lawlessness which existed in Europe, during the middle ages.” In Volume 5, Dumas relates the lengths to which Antoine Derues will go in his pursuit of money, and the consequences of the dark works of Marie Leroux and her partner Claude Perregaud.

In his eighth and final volume of his compilation of the most notorious deeds in European history at his point in time, Alexandre Dumas tells the story of three femmes fatales and the deaths that followed in their wake. The Marquise de Brinvilliers was a serial poisoner, Vaninka, an arsonist, and although the Marquise de Ganges did no killing herself, her beauty and desirability caused others to kill for her.

1815年初春拿破仑复辟前夕，马赛的青年水手爱德蒙・唐泰斯遭人诬陷，被安上“拿破仑党”的罪名关进伊夫堡监狱地下黑牢……1815年初春拿破崙復辟前夕，馬賽的青年水手愛德蒙・唐泰斯遭人誣陷，被安上「拿破崙黨」的罪名關進伊夫堡監獄地下黑牢……

This volume relates the stories of the Borgias and the Cenci. The former, a family of Spanish adventurers, came to dominate the Italian peninsula, and, when Rodergio Borgia became Pope Alexander VI, the world of Christendom, in the late 15th century. The Cenci was an aristocratic family, in which rampant sexual and domestic abuse led to murder and very public execution.

In the second entry of his compilation of the most notorious deeds in European history at his point in time, Alexandre Dumas composes an essay covering a span of nearly 300 years of strife between the Catholics and Protestants of Southern France. Dumas recounts numerous instances of bloody conflict, unruly mobs, assassination, and political turmoil as the Protestants of the region fight to live and worship as they choose and Catholics endeavor to suppress a dangerous threat to their hegemony.

"Serdtsa i shpagi" - radiospektakl' po motivam romana "D'Artan'yan i tri mushketera".