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Who knew? "Gen. Thomas-Alexandre Dumas was one of the heroes of the French Revolution — but you won't find a statue of him in Paris today. He led armies of thousands in triumph through treacherous territory, from the snows of the Alps to the sands of Egypt, and his true life stories inspired his son, Alexandre Dumas, to write The Count of Monte Cristo... How did the son of a Haitian slave and a French nobleman become Napoleon's leading swordsman..." https://www.npr.org/2012/09/15/160969342/the-black-count-a-hero-on-the-field-and-the-page