Greg Jenner is joined in 19th-century France by historian Professor Olivette Otele and comedian Celya AB to learn about ...

Villers-Cotterêts is a small, drab town to the north of Paris, with a long main street of gray stone and stucco. There are a few good restaurants, a musty hotel, and a once-royal chateau that was ...

&emdash, The project to set up a statue in memory of Napoleon’s general, Alexandre Dumas, first of the name, has brought to light the curious account of his family origin written by Dumas the second, ...

THE INCREDIBLE MARQUIS: Alexandre Dumas -Herbert Gorman -Farrar & Rinehart ($5). The Man. Quadroon son of a black-mothered father, Napoleon’s reckless General Alexandre Dumas, born in July 1802, was ...

From the stellar cast (Sam Claflin, Jeremy Irons) to the incredible story, learn about this new TV adaptation coming to ...

IN 1891 Mr. Davidson published two small volumes of extracts from Dumas’s Memoirs; but the complete work now appears in English for the first time. 1 Mrs. Waller, the translator, her publishers, and ...

(The Root) — In the recently released biography The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal and the Real Count of Monte Cristo, author Tom Reiss introduces us to an 18th-century unsung black hero.