[PDF] Jean-Marie PRATT - Alexandre Dumas - France

Who were Marquis Dumas' paternal grandparents?

Dumas' paternal grandparents were Marquis Alexandre-Antoine Davy de la Pailleterie, a French nobleman, and Général commissaire in the Artillery in the colony of Saint Domingue — now Haiti — and Marie-Cesette Dumas, an Afro-Caribbean Creole of mixed French/African ancestry.

Who was Thomas-Alexandre Davy de la Pailleterie?

After laying down a small bouquet in front of the house where Thomas-Alexandre Davy de la Pailleterie died in 1806, Briffaut gave a short speech to the few who had gathered to honour France’s first black general. Two years ago the ceremony was the centre of national attention.

Who was Alexander Dumas' wife Nadezhda von Knorring?

After this, he virtually abandoned writing novels, though his semi-autobiographical Affaire Clémenceau (1866) achieved some solid success. [citation needed] On 31 December 1864, in Moscow, Dumas married Nadezhda von Knorring (1826–April 1895), daughter of Johan Reinhold von Knorring and widow of Alexander Grigorievich Narishkin.

Why did Napoleon refuse to ransom Dumas?

When Dumas was taken prisoner in Italy on his way back from Napoleon’s ill-fated Egypt campaign — where he had openly criticised the commander-in-chief — he was left to rot in a Neapolitan prison. Napoleon, newly elected first consul, refused to ransom him.