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In the 1840s, Dumas founded the Théâtre Historique in Paris. His father, General Thomas-Alexandre Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie, was born in the French colony of Saint-Domingue (present-day Haiti) to Alexandre Antoine Davy de la Pailleterie, a French nobleman, and Marie-Cessette Dumas, an African slave.
Apr 2, 2014 · Alexandre Dumas was born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie on July 24, 1802, in Villers-Cotterêts, France, to Marie Louise Labouret and General Thomas-Alexandre Davy de la Pailleterie. The...
Dec 11, 2023 · Alexandre Dumas’ Parents: Thomas-Alexandre Dumas & Marie-Louise Élisabeth Labouret Portrait du Général Dumas, by Olivier Pichat, 1883, via Black Past Alexandre Dumas’ father, Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, was born in 1762 in the French colony of Saint-Domingue (now known as Haiti).
The author took the surname of his paternal grandmother, Marie-Césette Dumas, who was a woman of African descent and a slave in Saint-Domingue, which is present-day Haiti, and his grandfather was ...
Dumas’s father, Thomas-Alexandre Davy de La Pailleterie—born out of wedlock to the marquis de La Pailleterie and Marie Cessette Dumas, a black slave of Santo Domingo—was a common soldier under the ancien régime who assumed the name Dumas in 1786. He later became a general in Napoleon’s army.
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Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie, better known as Alexandre Dumas was born in Villers-Cotterêts, France, on 24th July 1802. His parents were Marie-Louise Élisabeth Labouret (the daughter of an innkeeper), and Thomas-Alexandre Dumas. Dumas’s father has a particularly interesting story: Thomas-Alexandre was born in the French colony of Haiti, as ...
Feb 24, 2024 · Born on July 24, 1802, in Picardy, France, Alexandre Dumas was of bi-racial Haitian heritage. His father Thomas-Alexandre was born in Haiti (Saint-Domingue) and migrated as a young boy to France with his white aristocratic father (Alexandre’s grandfather), becoming a captain in the army by age 31.
