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Tom Reiss - The Black Count.nfo
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Title: The Black Count
Author: Tom Reiss
Read By: Paul Michael
Copyright: 2012
Audiobook Copyright: 2012
Genre: Non-Fiction
Publisher: Random House Audio
Abridged: No
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Source: 11 cd
Condition: Good
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Total Duration: 13:29:43
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Book Description
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The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of
Monte Cristo (Pulitzer Prize for Biography)
General Alex Dumas, is a man almost unknown today, yet his story is
his larger-than-life feats as inspiration for such classics as The Count
of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers.
But, hidden behind General Dumas's swashbuckling adventures was
rose higher in the white world than any man of his race would before
our own time.
Born in Saint-Domingue (now Haiti), Alex Dumas made his way to
he met an implacable enemy he could not defeat.
TIME magazine called The Black Count "one of those quintessentially
human stories of strength and courage that sheds light on the historical
moment that made it possible." It is also a heartbreaking story of the
enduring bonds of love between a father and son.
In the 1790s, the son of an aristocratic white father and a black slave
woman became a charismatic French general who for a time rivaled Napoleon
himself, and afterward languished in an Italian dungeon. His story inspired
this fascinating story with a richly imaginative biography.
THE BLACK COUNT
Glory, Revolution, Betrayal,and the Real Count of Monte Cristo
By Tom Reiss
414 pp. Crown Publishers. $27.
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figure, since his contemporaries usually described him in conventional
superlatives. The chief source of information is a highly romanticized
memoir by his son, who was not yet 4 when he died, and who idealized
Still, such language seems deserved. General Dumas was majestically
to subordinates and a loving husband and father. He was also exceptionally
good-looking, though the portraits that survive are less spectacular
Dumas was born in 1762 at the western end of Saint-Domingue, the colony
that is now Haiti. Remarkably, the French Empire guaranteed protection
brought him to France at the age of 14 he was able to receive a first-rate
education and later to join the army. He never cared much for his feckless
father, however, and took the name Dumas from his slave mother, about
whom very little is known.
Still a young private in the army, Dumas fell in love and proposed marriage
long to wait. The French Revolution had erupted, proclaiming an ideal
This was a time of chaos throughout Europe, and Dumas got to experience
the upheavals firsthand. Assigned to the Army of the Alps, he fought
a series of difficult winter engagements in which his troops sometimes
foundered in deep snow and at other times skidded on icy cliffs. In
addition to being a gifted organizer and inspired tactician, he was
indomitable in hand-to-hand combat.
accomplishing enough, and when the infamous Committee of Public Safety
launched the Reign of Terror, he was charged with defeatism and incivisme,
such an accusation it was Dumas, whose devotion to the principles of
the revolution never wavered. But he was summoned to Paris possibly
Terror abruptly ended.
army had punished peasant resistance to the regime by massacring many
thousands of people. Acting decisively, he succeeded in restoring order.
Here and throughout his career he flouted military custom by forbidding
his men to pillage.
And then it was on to Italy. Promoted by now to the rank of general,
Dumas battled the Austrians, who called him the Black Devil. On one
memorable occasion he defended a mountain bridge against heavy odds,
Meanwhile Napoleon, seven years his junior, was rising rapidly in prestige,
obvious, and Napoleon would continue to make use of him, but always
chest.
In 1798 Napoleon started a megalomaniac campaign in the Middle East,
intending to conquer Egypt and then to go on to British India. There
were never enough supplies, the heat was intolerable and thousands of
soldiers were killed or died of disease. In Egypt, Dumas was now supreme
cavalry commander of the Army of the Orient, and as usual he distinguished
and along the way he treats us to a wealth of incidental information,
for instance about the Mameluke warriors who came to Egypt from the
Caucasus and bequeathed pale skin and blue eyes to some Egyptian families.-
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