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It was like the eve of a battle the hearts beat, the eyes laughed, and they felft that the life they were perhaps going to lose, was after all, a good thing.

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Alexandre Dumas
Age: 68 †
Born: 1802
Born: July 24
Died: 1870
Died: December 5
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Playwright
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Villers-Cotterets
Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie
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father
Alexandre Dumas
père
Alexandre Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie
Alexandre Dumas
the Elder
Eyes
Laughed
Eye
Beat
Heart
Beats
Thing
Hearts
Going
Battle
Good
Perhaps
Life
Lose
Like
Loses

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