[17][24], The only source for her full name, "Marie-Cessette Dumas", with that spelling, is General Thomas-Alexandre Dumas's later marriage certificate and contract. His grandfather was from a noble family, and his grandmother had been a Dominican slave. Father of Alexandre Dumas fils. Dumas's The Count of Monte Cristo contains several references to hashish. Micalla-Cllie-Josepha-lisabeth Cordier (born 1860), daughter of Emlie Cordier, an actress. Dumas to his brothers in arms, March 6, 1794, SHD 3B9, quoted by Reiss (2012). Dumas made few political statements, but those he made suggest deeply felt republican beliefs. The son's most famous literary characters were inspired by his father.[8]. In response to a man who once insulted him about his African ancestry, Dumas famously stated: It was published in France in 2004 by Honor-Champion. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.from The Count of Monte Cristo. [8][9] It is not known whether Marie-Cessette was born in Saint-Domingue or in Africa, nor is it known from which African people her ancestors came. [67], In early August 1794 Dumas was briefly assigned to command the cole de Mars military school at Neuilly-sur-Seine near Paris. He believed his illnesses were caused by poisoning. The British blockade of French shipping during the Seven Years' War reduced Charles' income from sugar exports, so he tried to smuggle the commodity out of Saint-Domingue from his plantation. In the final attack, Dumas's army, equipped with ice crampons, took the mountain by scaling ice cliffs and captured between 900 and 1,700 prisoners. According to his son's memoir, the marriage precipitated a "cooling off" which led the father to tighten Dumas's allowance. Dumas wrote in a wide variety of genres and published a total of 100,000 pages in his lifetime. His descendants are largely in southern States. Dumas's works included: Dumas wrote many plays and adapted several of his novels as dramas. Dumas soon participated in the Battle of the Pyramids (following which he chased retreating Mameluke horsemen) and the occupation of Cairo. They had daughters Marie-Alexandrine (b. September 1794), Louise-Alexandrine (b. January/February 1796, d. 1797), and a son, Alexandre Dumas, who became a notable author, with success in plays and adventure novels. [43] "Dumas" is from his mother. [56], Soon after, Dumas decided to join the French Army, a common occupation for gentlemen. In the 1840s, he founded the Thtre Historique, located on the Boulevard du Temple in Paris. Thomas-Alexandre had two siblings by his parents: Adolphe and Jeannette. [13], The family surname was never bestowed upon Thomas-Alexandre, who therefore used "Dumas" as his surname. S. Rethor ce acceptans tous les droits de propriet quelle a et pouvoir avoir sur Marie Cezette negresse mere dud. At his death in December 1870, Dumas was buried at his birthplace of Villers-Cotterts in the department of Aisne. As of August2017[update] its president is Claude Schopp. Entering the military in 1786 as a private at age 24, he commanded 53,000 troops as the General-in-Chief of the French Army of the Alps by age 31. The Holy Faith Army imprisoned Dumas and the rest of the passengers and confiscated most of their belongings. Alexandre Dumas pre formerly Davy de la Pailleterie Born 24 Jul 1802 in Villers-Cotterts, Aisne, France Ancestors Son of Thomas-Alexandre (Davy de la Pailleterie) Dumas and Marie Louise Elisabeth Labouret [sibling (s) unknown] Husband of Marguerite Josephine Ferrand married 1 Feb 1840 in Paris, France Descendants. Report by Dumas's aide-de-camp Dermoncourt, quoted in Alexandre Dumas. Son of Gnral Thomas-Alexandre Dumas and Marie-Louise lisabeth Labouret 6. The Dove - the sequel to Richelieu and His Rivals, This page was last edited on 10 January 2023, at 17:28. He was from Saint-Dominge (now Haiti and the Dominican Republic) and had a Black (enslaved) mother and white (nobleman) father, Alexandre Antoine Davy de la Pailleterie. [44] (It was known in his platoon that this was "not his real name". ? [57]) According to the novelist Dumas's account, on hearing of Alexandre's plan, his father insisted that his son take a "nom de guerre" in order that he not drag the noble name "through the lowest ranks of the army". In June 2005, Dumas's last novel, The Knight of Sainte-Hermine, was published in France featuring the Battle of Trafalgar. *Alexandre Dumas fils was born on this date in 1824.He was a Black French author and playwright. Under Joubert, Dumas led a small force that defeated several enemy positions along the Adige River. Dumas requested leave to return to France, and Napoleon did not oppose it. [26], Researchers have continued to find Dumas works in archives, including the five-act play The Gold Thieves, found in 2002 by the scholar Rginald Hamel[fr] in the Bibliothque Nationale de France. Returning to France after his release, he and his wife had a son, Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870), who would become one of France's most widely-read authors. For this the French began referring to him as "the Horatius Cocles of the Tyrol" (after a hero who saved ancient Rome). Dumas was subsequently omitted from mention in Napoleon's battle report to the Directory, France's government at the time. Please try again. Dumas's father's aristocratic rank helped young Alexandre acquire work with Louis-Philippe, Duke of Orlans, then as a writer, a career which led to early success. 1716, d. 1773) (married 1738 to Anne-Marie Tuff), and Louis Franois Thrse (Louis) (b. [46] General Dumas used the full name "Thomas-Alexandre Dumas-Davy de la Pailleterie" on his son's birth certificate. He published travel books about Russia. Showing 1-30 of 2,025 "There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. Marie-Louise Labouret-Dumas to Madame Carmin, 4 December 1806, Muse Alexandre Dumas (Villers-Cotterts, France). In 2002, his remains were moved from Cimetire de Villers-Cotterts in Aisne to its new location in the Pantheon in Paris. [23] Her grandson's memoir gave her name as Louise,[25] and another source recorded Ccile. In September, he was made commander-in-chief of the Army of the Western Pyrenees. Thomas-Alexandre Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie, known as Alexandre Dumas, was a French general. Thomas-Alexandre had been born in the French colony of Saint-Domingue (now Haiti), the mixed-race, natural son of the marquis Alexandre Antoine Davy de la Pailleterie (Antoine), a French nobleman and gnral commissaire in the artillery of the colony, and Marie-Cessette Dumas, an enslaved woman of Afro-Caribbean ancestry. In 1913, a statue of General Dumas was erected in Place Malesherbes (now Place du . News Americas, NEW YORK, NY, Fri. Aug. 28, 2020: Today, August 28, 2020, Google's Doodle spotlighted on Alexandre Dumas, also known as Alexandre Dumas Pre.But while Dumas achieved fame in France for his illustrious fiction career, including The Three Musketeers, (1844) and The Count of Monte Cristo, (1844-1845), his roots run straight to slavery in Haiti through his . Serving in the French Army, Dumas became an ally of the Assassin . On 28 August 2020, Google celebrated Dumas with a Google Doodle. Dumas participated in the French attempt to conquer Egypt and the Levant during the Expdition dgypte of 1798-1801, when he was a commander of the French cavalry forces. In December 1796, Dumas was in charge of a division besieging Austrian troops at the city of Mantua. [27] Reed wrote the most comprehensive bibliography of Dumas.[28][29]. He went on to attend the academy . [60], Dumas's regiment was in Paris on 17 July 1791, where they served as riot police along with National Guard units under the Marquis de Lafayette during the Champ de Mars Massacre of the French Revolution. During 1831 his father legally recognized him and ensured that the young Dumas received the best education possible at the Institution Goubaux and the Collge Bourbon. Updated on November 10, 2018. After writing additional successful plays, Dumas switched to writing novels. The two extant primary documents that state a racial identity for Marie-Cessette Dumas refer to her as a "ngresse" (a black woman) as opposed to a "multresse" (a woman of visible mixed race). [40] Thomas-Alexandre Dumas may have earlier claimed that she had died in order to avoid having to get her approval before marriage and revealing her slave status. "[70], In September 1795 Dumas served under General Jean-Baptiste Klber in the Army of the Rhine. He languished there until the spring of 1801. Dumas was the Father of the famous French author Alexandre Dumas [ 5] and the first black General in the French army. [76] Napoleon was reported to have said: "I can easily replace him with a brigadier. Father of Alexandre Dumas, fils; Marie-Alexandrine Dumas; Micalla Cllie Josepha lisabeth Cordier and Henri Baur The police report on the incident shows that Titon chose not to press charges as he might have, and all participants were released. (Scholars have found that he had a total of 40 mistresses. Sitter in 9 portraits French-born novelist and playwright, Dumas established his reputation with books including The Count of Monte Cristo (1844-5), The Three Muskateers (1844) and La Reine Margot (1845). Dumass father died when he was four years old, leaving the family with very little money. De dela Pailleterie se dessaisissans a son profit de tous les droits de proprit quelle pouvais avoir sur lesd. As newspapers were publishing many serial novels. They also had an older half-sister, Marie-Rose, born to Marie-Cessette before Davy de la Pailleterie purchased her and began a relationship. [79], While returning to France, the ship began to sink, and Dumas had to jettison much of his cargo. General Alexandre Dumas to First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte, 29 September 1801, cited in Alexandre Dumas. [17] They resided together at a plantation called La Guinaude[17] (Guinode[23]), near Jrmie (formerly in the French colony of Saint-Domingue, now Haiti) until shortly before Antoine's departure in 1775. Dumas . The Marie Antoinette romances comprise eight novels. Cesette 1720 - 1772 DUMAS Thomas Alexandre 1762 - 1806 LABOURET Marie . In 2002, for the bicentenary of Dumas's birth, French President Jacques Chirac held a ceremony honouring the author by having his ashes re-interred at the mausoleum of the Panthon of Paris, where many French luminaries were buried. It described his face as 'something closer to ebony' than to 'bronze. 2 Chapter 1 The beginning of the nineteenth century was a time of audacious enterprises and strange , An excellent biography of the three Alexandre Dumas is located in the first folder of the collection, and this sketch includes a literary synopsis of the careers of Alexandre Dumas, pere and Alexandre Dumas, fils. Many of his novels, including The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After, and The Vicomte de Bragelonne were originally serialized. Schopp finally wrote the final two-and-a-half chapters, based on the author's notes, to complete the story. . This is assumed to have been his mother's surname, but in fact, the surname "Dumas" occurs only once in connection with Marie-Cessette, and that happens in Europe, when Thomas-Alexandre states, while applying for a marriage license, that his mother's name was "Marie-Cessette Dumas." Thomas-Alexandre Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie (French:[tm alksd dym davi d la pajt()i]; known as Alexandre Dumas; 25 March 1762 26 February 1806) was a Creole general, from the French colony of Saint-Domingue, in Revolutionary France. In October, he was important in putting down an anti-French revolt in Cairo by charging into the Al-Azhar Mosque on horseback. Alexandre Dumas fils, Prface, in Frdric Fbvre, Anonymous, Contributors Club: The Dumas Lineage,. Dumas had one illegitimate son, Alexandre Dumas, (known as Dumas fils), born 27 July 1824 and he married the actress Ida Ferrier on 1 February 1840. Alexandre Dumas Biography - Alexandre Dumas, pere, born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie (July 24, 1802- December 5, 1870), is best known for his numerous historical novels of high adventure which have made him the most widely read French author in the world. He had two older sisters, Marie-Alexandrine (born 1794) and Louise-Alexandrine (17961797). He founded a production studio, staffed with writers who turned out hundreds of stories, all subject to his personal direction, editing, and additions. Under General Massna in February 1797, Dumas helped French troops push the Austrians northward, capturing thousands. The French were thereby able to maintain the siege until French reinforcements could arrive, leading to the city's capitulation on 2 February 1797. A 1781 rule enabled men who could show four generations of nobility on their father's side to qualify to be commissioned as officers. In that year, the two brothers quarreled violently,[17] after which Antoine left Charles's plantation, taking his three personal slaves with him. This was a "free legion" (i.e., formed separately from the regular army) composed of free men of color (gens de couleur libres). Alexandre Dumas (Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie) was born on 24 July, 1802 in Villers-Cotterts, Aisne, France, is a Writer, Soundtrack. Count de Mauldes request at the Parliament, 30 November 1778, Archives dpartementales du Pas-de-Calais (Dainville and Arras, France), 10J35. 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