Dumas s father was also named alexandre dumas but we ll call him alex here his preferred nickname to distinguish him from his famous son.

Alexandre dumas father background. Born in aisne france in 1806 alexandre grew up in poverty with his mother struggling to make ends meet. In 1824 alexandre fathered an illegitimate son called alexandre dumas fils whose mother marie catherine labay was a dressmaker. Thomas alexandre was born in the french colony of haiti as the son of the marquis alexandre antoine davy de la pailleterie a french nobleman and général commissaire in the artillery of the colony and marie cessette dumas a slave of afro caribbean ancestry. He was born into slavery because of his mother s status but his father took the boy with him to france in 1776 and had him educated.

Alexandre began his writing career in 1819 but his earliest efforts were unsuccessful however he soon learned his craft well enough to become a master story teller. Alexandre dumas fils would also go on to become a great writer. As chronicled in tom reiss s excellent the black count. Alexandre dumas was born on july 24 1802 near soissons france the son of a creole general of the french revolutionary armies.

Dumas s father thomas alexandre davy de la pailleterie born out of wedlock to the marquis de la pailleterie and marie cessette dumas a black slave of santo domingo was a common soldier under the ancien régime who assumed the name dumas in 1786. In 1797 he distinguished himself at the battle of adige when he. He used the name of dumas after a break with his father but succeeded him in profession and was promoted to general by the age of thirty one. His grandfather was from a noble family and his grandmother had been a dominican slave.

Dumas s father died when he was four years old leaving the family with very little money. His father thomas dumas was a freed slave aristocrat and a celebrated war general but. Alexandre dumas père count of monte cristo and the three musketeers. Born in saint domingue thomas alexandre was the son of the marquis alexandre antoine davy de la pailleterie a white french nobleman and marie cessette dumas an enslaved woman of african descent.

His father general thomas alexandre dumas davy de la pailleterie was born in the french colony of saint domingue present day haiti to alexandre antoine davy de la pailleterie a french nobleman and marie cessette dumas an enslaved woman of african descent. Dumas s father has a particularly interesting story.

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