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A French writer, best known for his numerous historical novels of high adventure which have made him one of the most widely read French authors in the world. Many of his novels, including The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After, and The Vicomte de Bragelonne were serialized. He also wrote plays and magazine articles and was a prolific correspondent. (From Wikipedia.)

Auguste Maquet was a French writer who helped Alexandre Dumas pen classics like The Three Musketeers. He was a key collaborator on many of Dumas's most famous historical adventure novels.