The Black Count: Glory, revolution, betrayal and the real Count of Monte Cristo Uncategorized & preparation information

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The Black Count: Glory, revolution, betrayal and the real Count of Monte Cristo Uncategorized & preparation informationWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY 2013 'Completely absorbing' Amanda Foreman 'Enthralling' Guardian 'The Three Musketeers! The Count of Monte Cristo! The stories of course are fiction. But here a prize winning author shows us that the inspiration for the swashbuckling stories was, in fact, Dumas's own father, Alex the son of a marquis and a black slave He achieved a giddy ascent from private in the Dragoons to the rank of general; an outsider