Google is paying tribute to the 19th-century French writer Alexandre Dumas, with Friday’s Doodle slideshow. Dumas is known for his adventure novels. His notable works include ‘Le Comte de Monte Cristo’ (‘The Count of Monte Cristo’) and ‘Les Troi Mousquetaires’ (‘The Three Musketeers’).

It was on this day in 1844 that the first installment of ‘The Count of Monte Cristo’ was published in a Parisian newspaper. An abbreviated version of the novel is included in the Doodle artwork.

Dumas was born as Davy de la Pailleterie in 1802 in Villers-Cotterets, France. He adopted the name, Alexandre Dumas, taking on the last name of his paternal grandmother, Marie-Cesette Dumas, a woman of African descent and a slave in present-day Haiti.

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He moved to Paris in 1922 and became an accomplished playwright. He gained massive success in the 1840s following the publication of his adventure novels. 

His last novel ‘Le Chevalier de Sainte-Hermine’ (‘The Last Cavalier’) was published in 2005 after it was uncovered in Paris’ National Library in the 1980s.