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Race & Ethnicity

PurgedVoter

(2,461 posts) Thu Feb 13, 2025, 11:19 PM Feb 13

My Favorite Fun Fact.

A black man was Napoleon's General of the French Army of the Alps. Born a slave, joined as a private and rose to command 53,000 troops. His son, also black, though few people realize it, is even more famous since Alexandre Dumas wrote, "The Three Musketeers."

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My Favorite Fun Fact. (Original Post) PurgedVoter Feb 13 OP

Good book by Tom Reiss called "The Black Count". I enjoyed it. jls4561 Feb 13 #1

Writer Alexandre Dumas was prolific. John1956PA Feb 13 #2

jls4561

(2,139 posts)

1. Good book by Tom Reiss called "The Black Count". I enjoyed it.

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Thu Feb 13, 2025, 11:25 PM

Feb 13

John1956PA

(3,876 posts)

2. Writer Alexandre Dumas was prolific.

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Thu Feb 13, 2025, 11:29 PM

Feb 13

Serials, novels, plays. He wrote by way of all of those vehicles.

"The Count of Monte Cristo," which is set in the first half of the nineteenth century, is a thrilling journey of one man's determination to exact revenge.

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