![]() I don’t wish any such observation on him, since he would have shit in his pants. Reiss offers insight into slavery and the life of a man of mixed race during the French Colonial Empire. ![]() Dumas picked up his quill and wrote to Napoleon a letter of such fantastical insolence it would be cited in every historical account of him as an example of his legendary temper: JanuGENERAL, I have learned that the jack ass whose business it is to report to you upon the battle of the 27th stated that I stayed in observation throughout that battle. The book presents the life and career of Dumas as a soldier and officer during the French Revolution, as well as his military service in Italy during the French Revolutionary Wars and later in Egypt under Napoleon. Tom Reiss The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo (Pulitzer Prize for Biography) Kindle Edition by Tom Reiss (Author) Format: Kindle Edition 2,302 ratings Editors' pick Best Biographies & Memoirs See all formats and editions Kindle 11.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0. ![]() “It was no wonder, then, that Dumas lost his temper when he read the official report of the battle, compiled by Napoleon’s aide-de-camp General Berthier, and saw that his role had been diminished to one of “in observation at San Antonio.” Berthier did include a phrase about Dumas’s fighting the enemy “well,” but this did nothing to make Alex Dumas reconsider what he was about to write into the official military record of the Army of Italy. ![]()
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