So cool to see this awesome biography as a staff pick at the airport bookstore! It's so good! It's the life of Dumas' father, a French general who inspired a lot of Dumas' work. General Alex Dumas, son of an enslaved Haitian woman and an asshole of a French noble, he came to France, rejected his titled name, took his mother's name, joined the army, and became indispensable, even rousing the jealousy of Napoleon! #dumasnerd #suchadumasnerd
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