Race & Ethnicity

PurgedVoter

(2,510 posts) Thu Feb 13, 2025, 11:19 PM Feb 2025

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 2025 OP

Good book by Tom Reiss called "The Black Count". I enjoyed it. jls4561 Feb 2025 #1

Writer Alexandre Dumas was prolific. John1956PA Feb 2025 #2

jls4561

(2,346 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 2025

John1956PA

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2. Writer Alexandre Dumas was prolific.

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Thu Feb 13, 2025, 11:29 PM

Feb 2025

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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