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The Black Count : glory, revolution, betrayal, and the real Count of Monte Cristo / Tom Reiss.
Van Pelt Library DC146.D83 R46 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Reiss, Tom.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dumas, Thomas Alexandre, 1762-1806.
- Dumas, Thomas Alexandre.
- Dumas, Alexandre, 1802-1870.
- France. Armée.
- Generals--France--Biography.
- Generals.
- Families.
- France.
- France. Armée--Biography.
- France--History, Military--1789-1815.
- History, Military.
- Dumas, Alexandre, 1802-1870--Family.
- Dumas, Alexandre.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 414 pages : maps ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Crown Trade, 2012.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Prologue, part 1 : February 26, 1807
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [341]-403) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780307382467
- 030738246X
- OCLC:
- 793503467
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