Editing Alexandre Dumas (section)

==Personal life==
[[File:Dumas pere print.jpg|thumb|left|upright|Dumas later in his career]]
On 1 February 1840, Dumas married actress Ida Ferrier (born Marguerite-Joséphine Ferrand) (1811–1859).<ref name="bl">{{cite web|url=http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/features/blackeuro/pdf/dumas.pdf|date=19 August 2005|title=Alexander Dumas (1802 – 1870)|author=Mike Phillips|website=British Library Online|access-date=16 March 2018|archive-date=5 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305083930/http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/features/blackeuro/pdf/dumas.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> They did not have any children together.

Dumas had numerous liaisons with other women; the scholar Claude Schopp lists nearly 40 mistresses.<ref name="Crace"/> He is known to have fathered at least four children by them:
* [[Alexandre Dumas, fils|Alexandre Dumas, {{lang|fr|fils|nocat=y}}]] (1824–1895), son of Marie-Laure-Catherine Labay (1794–1868), a dressmaker. He became a successful novelist and playwright.
* Marie-Alexandrine Dumas (1831–1878), daughter of Belle Kreilsamner (1803–1875) who acted under the stage name of Melanie Serre.
* [[Henry Bauër]] (1851–1915), son of Anna Bauër, a German of Jewish faith, wife of Karl-Anton Bauër, an Austrian commercial agent living in Paris
* Micaëlla-Clélie-Josepha-Élisabeth Cordier (born 1860), daughter of Emélie Cordier, an actress

About 1866, he had an affair with [[Adah Isaacs Menken]], an American actress who was twenty-six years younger than Dumas and at the height of her career. She had performed her sensational role in ''[[Mazeppa (play)|Mazeppa]]'' in London. In Paris, she had a sold-out run of ''[[Les Pirates de la Savanne]]'' and was at the peak of her success.<ref name="Haralson">[https://books.google.com/books?id=IKped0j8PXwC&dq=menken&pg=PA294 Dorsey Kleitz, "Adah Isaacs Menken"], in ''Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century'', ed. by Eric L. Haralson, pp. 294–296 (1998) ({{ISBN|978-1-57958-008-7}})</ref>

With [[Victor Hugo]], [[Charles Baudelaire]], [[Gérard de Nerval]], [[Eugène Delacroix]] and [[Honoré de Balzac]], Dumas was a member of the [[Club des Hashischins]], which met monthly to take [[hashish]] at a hotel in Paris. Dumas's ''The Count of Monte Cristo'' contains several references to hashish.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Komp |first1=Ellen |title=Alexandre Dumas |url=https://www.veryimportantpotheads.com/dumas.html |website=Very Important Potheads |access-date=8 August 2019}}</ref>