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  2. 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.

  3. 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 ...

  4. 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.

  5. www.alexandredumasworks.com › alexandre-dumas-biographyAlexandre Dumas - Biography

    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.

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. 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.

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