Show DUMAS A PROLIFIC AUTHOR but his output lof bof books and plays availed hinr him nothing when he sought election one of the mosta original election addresses on record was that Issue dy dby dumas pere in 1848 stood for foi a division of parts paris although du dumas nias had been b n an ardent republican long before the downfall of louis was mainly as ad an employer of labor that he sought the suf frages suffrage of democracy during the past 20 yeara he be wrote it Is recalled J I 1 have composed volumes and 35 plays each volume averaged a sale of copies and each play averaged performances a I 1 have thus helped to give employment to printers paper makers bookbinders booksellers etc alsoto also to actors actresses stage hands scene painters theatrical costumers etc the sale of my works produced about francs and the money paid to see my plays totaled about francs taking the average dally daily wage of all concerned at three francs and reckon reckoning ting working days to the year my books have kept persons for 20 years and my plays have kept 1041 persons for the same period this address of which huge quantities I 1 were alit in its purpose tivo years later dumas sought election for guadeloupe and was again defeated this austed gusted him that he never tried for foi election again |