Postings– History of Dumas the author

Tom and Atlas visited over the weekend so I didn’t post much. I wish I could take pictures But my hands don’t work well enough to do that anymore. Of course Atlas got a new toy and he really enjoyed. Yesterday, Monday, Tom took me to Perkins for breakfast. I had been wanting to try their Smasher since I keep seeing it on TV in their commercials. It was really good. With Tom here I also got a lot of coffee. He’s the only other person in our family that Drinks coffee. He keeps the coffee coming for me.

I recently finished a book named “The Black Count “. It was a book about Alexandre Dumas’s father. While reading this book I think of that line that people view is a curse. It is “May you live in interesting times”. Dumas’s was the author of “the Count of Monte Crisco” and the series with the Three Musketeers. I have read the Three Musketeers books and loved them. I’ve seen the movie the Count of Monte Crisco. Parts of these books are based on his father’s life. His father had a fascinating life and I hope to mention portions of it in following posts.

What makes it interesting is that he was his son of a mixed-race marriage in one of the French held Caribbean islands. These islands were to the French economy through their production of sugar cane. He also lived through the French Revolution as a member of the French army. I was very surprised to find out that French held slaves proceeded American slavery by many many decades. The horror these slaves encountered as French slaves was beyond comprehension. The French plantation owners treated them as disposable. At the same time during the French Revolution they were freed, sort of. Since Dumas is his father was mixed-race he gained his freedom and joined the French army. There is a decade of the French Revolution that race was insignificant.

Dumas served with great distinction but when Napoleon rose to power his career was derailed. Napoleon hated him, mostly because Dumas’s was a true French revolutionary and was honorable. Napoleon comes across in this book as a narcissistic devil. He makes himself an Emperor and slavery is reinstituted, and the advances of the Blacks during the revolution were repealed. Dumas’s his father lives do so much it’s hard to put it into a blog posting. The book does deal with the subject of slavery, the American Revolution and its effect on the French. Also I brought up that the French were integral in the American Revolution. They attacked the British everywhere in the world which meant the British could not concentrate on the Americans. This is how the American colonies were free. At the same time France went broke and the French Revolution followed. Most of the guillotine and the death of Marie Antoinette. I leave off here and open future postings to have more on the subject of racism.