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Attached is a pdf of a rather long appreciation of our canine companions by Monsieur Alexandre Dumas, creator of The Three Musketeers, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Black Tulip, and many other classics. It appeared in the June 24, 1865 edition of the Saturday Evening Gazette (Boston).
Portrait of a Hunter in a Landscape, attributed to Louis Gauffier (1762-1801), is said to be a portrait Dumas' father, General Thomas-Alexandre Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie. The general was born in the port of Monte Cristo, on the island of Saint-Domingue (now Haiti), son of a French nobleman and an enslaved woman of African descent. He was born a slave, because of his mother's status, but also a Noble because of his father's. Raised in France, he became a general in the Revolutionary Army, becoming General-in-Chief of the 53,000 man Army of the Alps, winning crucial victories over the Austrians. Later shipwrecked and captured, he spent years in a Neapolitan dungeon. Events in the father's life were the son's inspiration for the Count of Monte Cristo.
Alexandre Dumas also wrote this:
with which I am unfamiliar.
Portrait of a Hunter in a Landscape, attributed to Louis Gauffier (1762-1801), is said to be a portrait Dumas' father, General Thomas-Alexandre Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie. The general was born in the port of Monte Cristo, on the island of Saint-Domingue (now Haiti), son of a French nobleman and an enslaved woman of African descent. He was born a slave, because of his mother's status, but also a Noble because of his father's. Raised in France, he became a general in the Revolutionary Army, becoming General-in-Chief of the 53,000 man Army of the Alps, winning crucial victories over the Austrians. Later shipwrecked and captured, he spent years in a Neapolitan dungeon. Events in the father's life were the son's inspiration for the Count of Monte Cristo.
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