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The Black Count

[Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo]
Mar 22, 2013hmcgivney rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
General Alex Dumas was a man with great timing, and then terrible timing. An extraordinary man who managed to live through the time (French Revolution) where his mixed race didn't keep him from advancing, and then the Napoleonic era when it suddenly did matter again. His son, the novelist, seemed to think he could do no wrong, and used many of the events in Dumas Sr.'s life as inspiration for his novels. Much of the book was very interesting, though there were some parts that lagged a bit. I especially appreciated the insights into the French Revolution, the disarray of the post-revolution bureaucracy and its views about spreading the revolution to other countries.