Saturday, December 22, 2012

The Black Count: A book about Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, the melanated man who was the real Count of Monte Cristo and inspired The Three Musketeers

Source: ConnieMartinson Youtube channel

"The Black Count, is the biography of General Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, the mixed-race son of a Norman marquis and an Haitian slave, who became a swashbuckling swordsman in Paris and then a military hero of the French Revolutionary Wars, remaining the highest-ranking black military figure in a Western army until Gen. Colin Powell 200 years later. His rivalry with Napoleon landed him in a dungeon and led to his early death, but his life inspired his identically named son to write books like “The Count of Monte Cristo” and “The Three Musketeers.”"




Read the Wikipedia page for Thomas-Alexandre Dumas




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