Alexandre Dumas (1802 - 1870) was a French writer best known for his adventurous historical novels. Dumas also wrote plays and magazine articles. His most famous works The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After, and The Vicomte de Bragelonne first appeared in serial form. Camille is a sentimental romance about a poor woman who is befriended by a rich duke who later wishes her to become his mistress. She is saved from that fate by the love of a poor but good man. Because of his family's disapproval, they must separate.