Although Alexandre Dumas was in fact a very different writer than Victor Hugo, students may find in Hugo a useful entry point into Dumas's work. Both The Three Musketeers and The Hunchback of Notre Dame are some of the earliest examples of French novels in the Romantic style, and each shows the Romantic period's enduring preoccupation with the France of years past.
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