fascinating, a great contextualization of the history of france directly in a pre-napoleonic era through the life and efforts of the original alexandre dumas. having read much of the novelist dumas' work and only recently discovering his racial history, i was really interested in the story of the general who rose up at a time wherein france was set on enacting abolition, and his rise through the ranks. it was a great triumph, and then subsequently a great tragedy, and it makes so much sense that dumas the novelist would want to memorialize dumas the general in his works.