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The Black Count glory, revolution, betrayal, and the real Count of Monte Cristo

Explores the life and career of Thomas Alexandre Dumas, a man almost unknown today, but whose swashbuckling exploits appear in The three musketeers and whose trials and triumphs inspired The count of Monte Cristo.

Main Author: Reiss, Tom.
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Crown Trade, 2012.
Subjects:
Crasweller, Sherry F. tribute.
Dumas, Thomas Alexandre, > 1762-1806.
Dumas, Alexandre, > 1802-1870 > Family.
France. > ArmeĢe > Biography.
Generals > France > Biography.
France > History, Military > 1789-1815.
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue, part 1 : February 26, 1806
  • Prologue, part 2 : January 25, 2007
  • The sugar factory
  • The Black Code
  • Norman Conquest
  • "No one is a slave in France"
  • Americans in Paris
  • Black Count in the City of Light
  • A queen's dragoon
  • Summers of revolution
  • "Regeneration by blood"
  • "The black heart also beats for liberty"
  • "Mr. Humanity"
  • The battle for the top of the world
  • The bottom of the Revolution
  • The siege
  • The Black Devil
  • Leader of the expedition
  • "The delirium of his republicanism"
  • Dreams on fire
  • Prisoner of the Holy Faith Army
  • "Citizeness Dumas...is worried about the fate of her husband"
  • The dungeon
  • Wait and hope
  • The forgotten statue.

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