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The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo

Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo

by Tom Reiss

414 pages · 2012

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Traces the story of the mixed-race swordsman and father of novelist Alexandre Dumas, discussing his rise to the French aristocracy, his military triumphs ,and the adventures that inspired such classics as "The Three Musketeers" and "The Count of Monte Cristo."

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