![]() ![]() ![]() I don’t wish any such observation on him, since he would have shit in his pants. The Black Count is a complex work of political and social history gallantly masquerading as a fantastic adventure story. ![]() ![]() Dumas picked up his quill and wrote to Napoleon a letter of such fantastical insolence it would be cited in every historical account of him as an example of his legendary temper: JanuGENERAL, I have learned that the jack ass whose business it is to report to you upon the battle of the 27th stated that I stayed in observation throughout that battle. “It was no wonder, then, that Dumas lost his temper when he read the official report of the battle, compiled by Napoleon’s aide-de-camp General Berthier, and saw that his role had been diminished to one of “in observation at San Antonio.” Berthier did include a phrase about Dumas’s fighting the enemy “well,” but this did nothing to make Alex Dumas reconsider what he was about to write into the official military record of the Army of Italy. ![]()
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