La comtesse de Charny
Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870) "Quelques jours après l'exécution que nous venons de raconter, et dans tous les détails de laquelle nous sommes entré pour édifier nos lecteurs sur la reconnaissance que doivent attendre, des rois et des princes, ceux-là qui se sacrifient pour eux, un homme monté sur un cheval gris pommelé gravissait lentement l'avenue de Saint-Cloud. Cette lenteur, il ne fallait l'attribuer ni à la lassitude du cavalier, ni à la fatigue du cheval : l'un et l'autre avaient fait une faible course ; c'était chose facile à voir, car l'écume qui s'échappait de la bouche de l'animal venait de ce qu'il avait été, non poussé outre mesure, mais retenu avec obstination. Quant au cavalier qui était - cela se voyait au premier coup d'oeil - un gentilhomme, tout son costume, exempt de souillures, attestait la précaution prise par lui pour sauvegarder ses vêtements de la boue qui couvrait le chemin. Ce qui retardait le cavalier, c'était la pensée profonde dans laquelle il était visiblement absorbé, puis encore peut-être le besoin de n'arriver qu'à une certaine heure, laquelle n'était pas encore sonnée. C'était un homme de quarante ans à peu près, dont la puissante laideur ne manquait pas d'un grand caractère : une tête trop grosse, des joues bouffies, un visage labouré de petite vérole, un teint facile à l'animation, des yeux prompts à lancer l'éclair, une bouche habituée à mâcher et à cracher le sarcasme ; tel était l'aspect de cet homme, que l'on sentait au premier abord, destiné à occuper une grande place et à faire un grand bruit." 4e et dernier roman des "Mémoires d'un médecin" Tome II
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Alexandre Dumas
Alexandre Dumas (born Alexandre Davy de la Pailleterie; 24 July 1802 – 5 December 1870), also known as Alexandre Dumas père, was a French novelist and playwright.
His works have been translated into many languages and he is one of the most widely read French authors. Many of his historical novels of adventure were originally published as serials, including The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After and The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later. He also wrote many plays and, since the early 20th century, many of his novels have been adapted into films. Prolific in several genres, Dumas began his career by writing plays, which were successfully produced from the first. He wrote numerous magazine articles and travel books; his published works totalled 100,000 pages. In the 1840s, Dumas founded the Théâtre Historique in Paris.
His father, General Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, né Davy de la Pailleterie, was born in the French colony of Saint-Domingue (present-day Haiti) to Alexandre Antoine Davy de la Pailleterie, a French nobleman, and Marie-Cessette Dumas, an African slave. At age 14, Thomas-Alexandre was taken by his father to France, where he was given his freedom, educated in a military academy, and entered the military for what became an illustrious career.
Alexandre acquired work with Louis-Philippe, Duke of Orléans, then as a writer, a career that led to his early success. Decades later, after the election of Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte in 1851, Dumas fell from favour and left France for Belgium, where he stayed for several years. He moved to Russia for a few years and then to Italy. In 1861, he founded and published the newspaper L'Indépendant, which supported Italian unification. He returned to Paris in 1864.
English playwright Watts Phillips, who knew Dumas in his later life, described him as "the most generous, large-hearted being in the world. He also was the most delightfully amusing and egotistical creature on the face of the earth. His tongue was like a windmill—once set in motion, you would never know when he would stop, especially if the theme was himself."
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