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Literature: Alexandre Dumas, a grandson of a slave who became one of the most famous writers
“The Three Musketeers: Milady” is released in cinemas on Wednesday December 13. This is the second part of these films inspired by the novel by Alexandre Dumas. The opportunity for the 20 Hours to look into the history of this writer, grandson of a slave who rests in the Pantheon. – (France 2)
“The Three Musketeers: Milady” is released in cinemas on Wednesday December 13. This is the second part of these films inspired by the novel by Alexandre Dumas. The opportunity for the 20 Hours to look into the history of this writer, grandson of a slave who rests in the Pantheon.
The film The three Musketeers : Milady comes out Wednesday, December 13 in theaters. This is the second film dedicated to the novel by Alexandre Dumas. The writer had a rich imagination. He published 300 books and rests in the Pantheon, among the great men. Her grandmother was a slave on a plantation in Haiti. His grandfather, the boss, was a minor nobleman. Of this union is born the father of Alexandre Dumas. He was the first mixed race general in the French army. Orphaned at four years old, Alexandre idealized this dad who would be his hero, and regardless of the taunts about his African origins.
An extraordinary trip to Russia and the Caucasus
To pay for all his follies, like his castle of Monte-Cristo in Yvelines, Alexandre Dumas wrote frenziedly, with theater and novels sold in the form of serials to the press. He made a lot of money, but he spent even more. He had multiple affairs with women who cost him his life. As a globe-trotting reporter, he traveled for ten months across Russia and the Caucasus, an extraordinary journey for the time, the story of which was published in episodes in the press.
