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Tom Reiss, Pulitzer prize-winning author of 'The Black Count' talks about his motivations as a biographer and the power of the Monte Cristo story.
Buy: Tom Reiss - The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal and the Real Count of Monte Cristo
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Showing posts with label Alexandre Dumas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Alexandre Dumas. Show all posts
Friday, January 10, 2014
Video: 'Tom Reiss - The Black Count' Book Review - Bookcase with Alex Dickson
Award winning Book Critic Alex Dickson reviews Tom Reiss's 'The Black Count'.
Buy: Tom Reiss - The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal and the Real Count of Monte Cristo
Wednesday, January 1, 2014
La Belle Isabeau
La Belle Isabeau, an African-born descendant of Santo Domingo (Republic of Haiti) was rare, the daughter of a European and an African-descendant (the reverse is more common in the colonies).
It has been said - and even writing - his mother was Lady Clugny, Baroness de Nuits, born Charlotte Theresa Tardieu of Maleissye. Lady Clugny was the wife of Jean-Etienne Ogier Clugny, baron de Nuits (born in Guadeloupe), steward of Santo Domingo from 1760 to 1764 and the Comptroller General of Finance in 1776 (replacing Turgot). Baron was known for his manners extremely relaxed.
Lady Clugny, Baroness de Nuits, widow from 1776, was certainly not to be outdone was the model of the Marquise de Merteuil in Dangerous Liaisons.
His alleged daughter, Isabella, lived in Paris during the reign of Louis XVI and made headlines. She was received at Madame du Barry where she met Zamor .
They said Isabeau secretly saw her mother.
It was a fashionable woman. As wealthy as free in his remarks, Isabeau is allowed to launch in spring 1783 she was ready to pay 2,000 pounds (several tens of thousands of euros) favors the Comte d'Artois, brother of King Louis XVI (and future Charles X).
Isabeau had to have some protection, not only because she was not worried, but the prince, amused by the proposal, invited to his castle at Bagatelle.
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Friday, May 10, 2013
Interview: Tom Reiss talks Alexandre Dumas and 'The Black Count' on Connie Martinson Talks Books
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Tom Reiss talks 'The Black Count' and about Alexandre Dumas' father, the son of a French noble and a black Haitian, who fought his way to fame in the wars of the French Revolution, only to fall victim to a jealous Napoleon and his slaveholding supporters on Connie Martinson Talks Books.
Buy: Tom Reiss - The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal and the Real Count of Monte Cristo
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Tom Reiss talks 'The Black Count' and about Alexandre Dumas' father, the son of a French noble and a black Haitian, who fought his way to fame in the wars of the French Revolution, only to fall victim to a jealous Napoleon and his slaveholding supporters on Connie Martinson Talks Books.
Buy: Tom Reiss - The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal and the Real Count of Monte Cristo
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Interview: Tom Reiss talks Alexandre Dumas and 'The Black Count' on the NPR
Tom Reiss talks 'The Black Count' and about Alexandre Dumas' father, the son of a French noble and a black Haitian, who fought his way to fame in the wars of the French Revolution, only to fall victim to a jealous Napoleon and his slaveholding supporters on the NPR.
Buy: Tom Reiss - The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal and the Real Count of Monte Cristo
'The Black Count' wins the 2013 Pulitzer Prize
Tom Reiss' true-life account of the inspiration for the 'Count of Monte Cristo' and Adam Johnson's novel about North Korea, 'The Orphan Master's Son,' were among the four book winners.
The 2013 Pulitzer Prizes were announced today by the Pulitzer Prize Board at a ceremony at Columbia University.
OUR EDITOR RECOMMENDS
'Disgraced' Honored With 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama
Pulitzer Prizes: Denver Post Wins for Aurora Theater Shooting Coverage
In books, the fiction prize went to The Orphan Master's Son (Random House) by Adam Johnson.
The 2013 Pulitzer Prizes were announced today by the Pulitzer Prize Board at a ceremony at Columbia University.
OUR EDITOR RECOMMENDS
'Disgraced' Honored With 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama
Pulitzer Prizes: Denver Post Wins for Aurora Theater Shooting Coverage
In books, the fiction prize went to The Orphan Master's Son (Random House) by Adam Johnson.
BUY: Tom Reiss - The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal and the Real Count of Monte Cristo
Here is the remarkable true story of the real Count of Monte Cristo – a stunning feat of historical sleuthing that brings to life the forgotten hero who inspired such classics as The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers.
The real-life protagonist of The Black Count, General Alex Dumas, is a man almost unknown today yet with a story that is strikingly familiar, because his son, the novelist Alexandre Dumas, used it to create some of the best loved heroes of literature.
Yet, hidden behind these swashbuckling adventures was an even more incredible secret: the real hero was the son of a black slave -- who rose higher in the white world than any man of his race would before our own time.
The real-life protagonist of The Black Count, General Alex Dumas, is a man almost unknown today yet with a story that is strikingly familiar, because his son, the novelist Alexandre Dumas, used it to create some of the best loved heroes of literature.
Yet, hidden behind these swashbuckling adventures was an even more incredible secret: the real hero was the son of a black slave -- who rose higher in the white world than any man of his race would before our own time.
Interview: Tom Reiss talks Alexandre Dumas and 'The Black Count' on the Mimi Geerges Show
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Did you know that the "Count of Monte Cristo" was based on a real man? Mimi interviews Tom Reiss, who rediscovered the papers of the real Count locked away in an obscure village museum in France. Tom tells the story of "The Black Count" - Alexandre Dumas' father, the son of a French noble and a black Haitian, who fought his way to fame in the wars of the French Revolution, only to fall victim to a jealous Napoleon and his slaveholding supporters.
Buy: Tom Reiss - The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal and the Real Count of Monte Cristo
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Did you know that the "Count of Monte Cristo" was based on a real man? Mimi interviews Tom Reiss, who rediscovered the papers of the real Count locked away in an obscure village museum in France. Tom tells the story of "The Black Count" - Alexandre Dumas' father, the son of a French noble and a black Haitian, who fought his way to fame in the wars of the French Revolution, only to fall victim to a jealous Napoleon and his slaveholding supporters.
Buy: Tom Reiss - The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal and the Real Count of Monte Cristo
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