She was the mother of Alexandre Dumas, author of The Three Musketeers, The Count of Monte Cristo and other novels. She was bornm poor, the daughter of an innkeeper, married Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, a...
Elizabeth Vigee-Lebrun, 16 April 1755 to 30 March 1842, was a Paris, France portrait painter. Taught by her father Louis Vigee, she was summoned to paint Marie Antoinette in 1779, she became a friend...