Two documents signed by Alexandre Dumashis contract and certificate of marriage to Marie-Louise Labouretstate that Marie-Cessette died in La Guinaude, near Trou Jrmie, Saint-Domingue, in 1772. Unlike his noble peers, who took arms as commissioned officers, Dumas enlisted as a private. In the late twentieth century, scholars such as Reginald Hamel and Claude Schopp have caused a critical reappraisal and new appreciation of his art, as well as finding lost works. Dumas was born in Paris, France, the illegitimate child of Marie-Laure-Catherine Labay (1794-1868), a dressmaker, and novelist Alexandre Dumas. See also: Alexandre Dumas, fils. [7] Their parents were Marie-Louise lisabeth Labouret, the daughter of an innkeeper, and Thomas-Alexandre Dumas. His country home outside Paris, the Chteau de Monte-Cristo, has been restored and is open to the public as a museum. He used a wharf in the neutral border territory (and tiny island) of Monte Cristo (today Monte Christi, Dominican Republic). [26] Sources have spelling variations of her name, as standardization was not common. Many of his novels, including The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After, and The Vicomte de Bragelonne were originally serialized. [54], In February 1786 his father Davy de la Pailleterie married Franoise Retou, a domestic servant from the Davy de la Pailleterie estate. Registry of the Dragoons in the Regiment of the Queen, Dumas entry, 2 June 1786, privately held by Gilles Henry, quoted Reiss (2012). He was the son (fils) of Alexandre Dumas, pre, also a writer and playwright. His first serial novel was La Comtesse de Salisbury; douard III (July-September 1836). They vented criticisms of Napoleon's leadership and discussed the possibility of refusing to march beyond Cairo. The English playwright Watts Phillips, who knew Dumas in his later life, described him as "the most generous, large-hearted being in the world. [72], Following the 16 January fighting, Dumas felt insulted by the description of his actions in a battle report by General Berthier, Bonaparte's aide-de-camp, and wrote a letter to Napoleon cursing Berthier. In 1775, Antoine sailed to France to claim the family inheritance, pawning his black son into slavery to buy passage. Seeing "him ride his horse over the trenches, going to ransom the prisoners, all of them believed that he was the leader of the Expedition. The boy accompanied Captain Langlois to Le Havre, France, arriving on 30 August 1776, where his father bought him back and freed him. Antoine Davy de la Pailleterie, who reached the rank of colonel, saw action at the Siege of Philippsburg in 1734. In 2002, for the bicentenary of Dumas's birth, French President Jacques Chirac held a ceremony honouring the author by having his ashes re-interred at the mausoleum of the Panthon of Paris, where many French luminaries were buried. [19][20] Returning to Paris in 1864, he published travel books about Italy. It described his face as 'something closer to ebony' than to 'bronze. [76] Napoleon was reported to have said: "I can easily replace him with a brigadier. [5] in 1797. From 1839 to 1841, Dumas, with the assistance of several friends, compiled Celebrated Crimes, an eight-volume collection of essays on famous criminals and crimes from European history. Alexandre Dumas Biography - Alexandre Dumas, pere, born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie (July 24, 1802- December 5, 1870), is best known for his numerous historical novels of high adventure which have made him the most widely read French author in the world. Shortly before his departure, he sold his long-time concubine Marie-Cessette and two of his own daughters born to her (Adolphe and Jeanette), as also Marie-Cessette oldest daughter Marie-Rose (whose father was a different man) to a Baron who had recently came from Nantes to settle in Saint Domingue. He used the name "Retor" (sometimes spelled Rethor) during and for some years after the period in which his father sold him and then re-purchased him (17751776). Dumas was a famous womenizer, and he supposedly had up to 40 different mistresses over his lifetime. He changed his last name to Dumas, which he adopted from his grandmother who used to work as a Haitian slave. Dumas said: My father was a mulatto, my grandfather was a Negro, and my great-grandfather a monkey. The writer died at the age of 68 on December 7, 1870, in Dieppe, Seine-Maritime, French Third Republic. 1860.jpg 190 265; 6 KB 0 references sex or gender female 0 references given name Marie 0 references Alexandrine 0 references family name Dumas 0 references date of birth 5 March 1831 Julian 1 reference Labouret), July 24 1802 - Villers-Cotterts, Aisne, Picardie, France, Dec 5 1870 - Puys, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France, Thomas-alexandre Dumas, Marie-louise lisabeth Dumas (geb. . [91] Marie-Louise and the young Alexandre blamed Napoleon Bonaparte's "implacable hatred" for their poverty. The French were thereby able to maintain the siege until French reinforcements could arrive, leading to the city's capitulation on 2 February 1797. His grandfather was from a noble family, and his grandmother had been a Dominican slave. He adopted the surname Dumas from his grandmother, a former Haitian slave. Jerome (Jeremiah) Dumas, a Huguenot, arrived in James Town, Virginia July 20, 1700 and his descendants are numbered in the thousands. The most famous Dumas, Alexandre Dumas, pre had three illegimate children, one of whom is Alexandre Dumas, fils, born to Marie-Laure-Catherine Labay, a dressmaker. in Villers-Cotterts, France , France, Died on December 05, 1870 His father sold Marie-Cessette and her other three children before taking Thomas-Alexandre to France. He is the author of La Dame aux Camlias, or The Lady of the Camellias. His death was overshadowed by the Franco-Prussian War. [18]) In 1846, he had built a country house outside Paris at Le Port-Marly, the large Chteau de Monte-Cristo, with an additional building for his writing studio. , Robert II de Wavrin, Marguerite de BEAUMEZ , Jean de PICQUIGNY. According to biographer Tom Reiss, the name Retor was "picked up from a neighbor in Jrmie (where the name can be found on official records of the period)". After his father sold that estate in 1777, they moved to a townhouse on the rue de l'Aigle d'Or in the Parisian suburb of Saint-Germain-en-Laye. Alexandre Dumas (Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie) was born on 24 July, 1802 in Villers-Cotterts, Aisne, France, is a Writer, Soundtrack. 1718, d. 1773). Dumas travelled there and for the next three years participated in the movement for Italian unification. [55] Dumas did not sign as witness to the marriage contract. In 1775, following the death of both his brothers, Antoine left Saint-Domingue for France in order to claim the family estates and the title of Marquis. He focused on increasing military discipline and eliminating soldiers' abuses of the local population. Discover Alexandre Dumas's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. He was successful in getting more money, but not a by-line.[16][17]. [16] Dumas wrote the short novel Georges (1843), which uses ideas and plots later repeated in The Count of Monte Cristo. [18] He is known to have fathered at least four children by them: About 1866, Dumas had an affair with Adah Isaacs Menken, a well-known American actress. [83] She stayed in Villers-Cotterts with her family during his military campaigns. Alexandre Dumas & Adah Isaacs Menken by Gallica - WikiCommons. ALEXANDRE DUMAS Premium Collection - 27 Novels in One Volume: The Three Musketeers Series, The Marie Antoinette Novels, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Valois Trilogy and more (Illustrated) by Alexandre Dumas , Maurice Leloir, et al. The Dove - the sequel to Richelieu and His Rivals, This page was last edited on 10 January 2023, at 17:28. [13] The Davy de la Pailleteries were provincial Norman aristocrats whose wealth was in decline. He wrote journal articles on politics and culture and books on French history. Apic/Getty Images. There, Alexandre studied at the academy of Nicolas Texier de la Bossire[fr], where he was given a young nobleman's higher education. After fighting, Napoleon sent Dumas to pay ransom to some Bedouins who had kidnapped French soldiers. [18], Schopp has since found additional material related to the Sainte-Hermine saga. Dumas travelled to Spain, Italy, Germany, England and French Algeria. Want to Read. In his memoirs, Napoleon remembered threatening to shoot Dumas for sedition. in Puys, France, This form allows you to report an error or to submit additional information about this family tree: Alexandre DUMAS (1802), Copyright Wikipdia authors - This article is under licence CC BY-SA 3.0. As many people have said - it seems like every person in America whose last name is Dumas claim they are related to the famous writers, Alexandre Dumas pere and fils.But it was proven to be not true.they had only French descendants within the boundaries of France.And the lines died out for the male heirs bearing the name of Dumas. [38], Sources differ on the date and circumstance of her death. In 1762, she gave birth to their mixed-race son Thomas-Alexandre. [29] Others have suggested African origins of the names Cessette and Dumas, including Gabon or Dahomey. That year Antoine also left the Army and joined his brother and sister-in-law in Saint-Domingue. [15] The French kingdom granted the title "marquis" to the family by 1708.[16]. The unabridged versions (normally 100 chapters or more) comprise only five books (numbers 1, 3, 4, 7 and 8); the short versions (50 chapters or less) number eight in total: Although best known now as a novelist, Dumas first earned fame as a dramatist. By the time of his release, he was partially paralyzed, almost blind in one eye, had been deaf in one ear but recovered; his physique was broken. (Scholars have found that he had a total of 40 mistresses. The first letter he signed "Alex Dumas" appears to be General Dumas to Minister of War Bouchotte, 11 January 1794, Service historique de la Dfense (Vincennes, France), 3B9. In that country, Thomas-Alexandre received his freedom and a sparse education at a military school, adequate to enable him to join the French army, there being no question of the mixed-race boy being accepted as his father's heir. 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