title: Alexandre and Simone, the Two Musketeers
author: Ravicz, Marilyn Ekdahl
description: Sometimes an individual feels an odd but compelling link to someone from another time and place, even another sex. This story captures the lives of two persons conjoined across space and time by similar passions, habits and compulsive interests. It links the famous and prodigious writer (Alexandre Dumas), living in late revolutionary France, with a modern California woman (Simone Dahlgren) who collects and sells artist-illustrated and antiquarian books and manuscripts. It is a compelling tale of what happened when similar ‘reincarnated’ obsessive interests traversed time and space and were expressed through deeds of  passion, folly, love, beauty and even murder.