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Alexandre Dumas, père (born July 24, 1802, Villers-Cotterêts, Aisne, France—died December 5, 1870, Puys, near Dieppe) was one of the most prolific and most popular French authors of the 19th century.
Oct 3, 2023 · Alexandre Dumas is one of France’s best-known and widely read authors – but his relationship with the country of his birth was, at times, a complicated one. As a man of mixed race in a predominantly white country, he was subjected to racism throughout his life, and due to France’s political upheavals during his lifetime, he even went into ...
Nov 10, 2018 · Born in France in 1802, Dumas was the son of famed general Thomas-Alexandre Davy de La Pailleterie and the grandson of Marie Césette Dumas, an enslaved woman of African descent. His last name, Dumas, was adopted from his grandmother.
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.
BAMPFA. Alexandre Dumas père (father)—the celebrated and prolific nineteenth-century author of The Three Musketeers, The Man in the Iron Mask, and The Count of Monte Cristo, among many others—was a man of mixed race whose father was nicknamed “The Black Hercules” while serving as a general in Napoleon Bonaparte’s army.
He was the son of a black slave and a renegade French aristocrat, born in Saint-Domingue (now Haiti) when the island was the center of the world sugar trade.
Oct 27, 2010 · Creating a local black identity in a global context: the French writer Alexandre Dumas as an African American lieu de mémoire. Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 October 2010. Eric Martone. Article. Metrics. Get access. Share. Cite. Rights & Permissions. Abstract.