Dumas, Alexandre, the Younger or fils, dramatist and novelist, born in Paris, son of the preceding; he made his début as a novelist with “La Dame aux Camélias” in 1848, which was succeeded by a number of other novels; he eventually gave himself up to the production of dramas, in which he was more successful than in romance (1824‒1895).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Dumas, Alexandre, the Elder * Dumas, Jean Baptiste André