On this day, Alexandre Dumas, the renowned French author of African descent, passed away at the age of 68. Dumas is best known for his literary masterpieces The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo. Born in 1802, he was the grandson of a Haitian enslaved woman and the son of Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, a heroic general in Revolutionary France and one of the highest-ranking men of African descent in a Western army.
Despite facing racism during his lifetime, Dumas rose to literary fame, and his works remain some of the most widely read and adapted stories in the world.
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