SIR WALTER SCOTT, HIS LIFE & PERSONALITY (295 pp.)—Hesketh Pearson—Harper ($4). ALEXANDRE DUMAS, A GREAT LIFE IN BRIEF (198 pp.)—André Maurois—Knopf ($2.50). The two writers were as different as ...

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Mireille Dumas (born 10 September 1953) is a French journalist, television producer and presenter. Mireille Dumas was born in Chartres in the department of Eure-et-Loir, the fifth of six children. Her ...