Google Doodle celebrates French writer Alexandre Dumas

Google honors French writer Alexandre Dumas, whose popular works include The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers, with a Doodle slideshow Friday

Google Doodle celebrates French writer Alexandre Dumas

Google honors French writer Alexandre Dumas, whose popular works include The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers, with a Doodle slideshow Friday. An abridged version of The Count of Monte Cristo was included in Doodle's artwork. 

On August 28, 1844, the first part of the novel was published in a Parisian newspaper.

Dumas was born in 1802 in Villiers-Coterets, France, under the name Dumas Devi de la Paitere. He adopted the name Alexandre Dumas, and took the last name of his paternal grandmother 

Marie Cessette Dumas, an African-American woman and slave in present-day Haiti.

Dumas moved to Paris in 1822 and became a playwright before achieving great success with his novels in the 1840s. He is one of the most famous French authors in the world, with his books translated into more than 100 languages.