Auguste Maquet [SEP] place of death
Auguste Maquet
Auguste Maquet (; 13 September 1813, Paris – 8 January 1888) was a French author, best known as the chief collaborator of French novelist Alexandre Dumas, père, co-writing such works as "The Count of Monte Cristo" and "The Three Musketeers".
Biography.
Maquet was born in Paris in 1813. He studied at the Lycée Charlemagne where he became a professor at the age of 18. Trained as a historian, he turned to literature, and became close with such literary
by Czar Nicholas I, and Dumas was prohibited from visiting the country until after the Czar's death. Dumas refers to Grisier with great respect in "The Count of Monte Cristo", "The Corsican Brothers", and in his memoirs.
Dumas depended on numerous assistants and collaborators, of whom Auguste Maquet was the best known. It was not until the late twentieth century that his role was fully understood. Dumas wrote the short novel "Georges" (1843), which uses ideas and plots later repeated in