CHAPTER I THE BOY (1802-1818) HE name Dumas is neither rare nor undistinguished in France. There was a Doctor of the Sorbonne, E-Iilaire Dumas, a learned theologian ; there was Louis Dumas, a writer on the theory of music, and tutor to the Marquis de Montcalm ; there was Rene" Francois Dumas, assessor of Fouquier-Tinville, and his equal in ferocity; there was Count Mathieu Dumas, who filled important military offices under the Republic and the Empire, originated the idea of the Legion of Honour, and wrote a history Df Napoleon's campaigns. And there were some fifty others. Among them, contemporary with our own Alexandre, there lived an Adolphe Dumas, destined by rather unkind fortune to be also something of a poet and dramatist. Of him it is said that, having had a play of his produced at the Theatre Francais, and happening to meet Alexandre in the foyer that evening, he exclaimed with a natural complacency, " Hitherto the Francais has had its two Corneilles, henceforth it willTable...

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