![]() ![]() ![]() In 1844, Dumas moved to Saint-Germain-en-Laye, near Paris, to live with his father. Their son Thomas-Alexandre Dumas became a high-ranking general of Revolutionary France. ĭumas' paternal great-grandparents were Marquis Alexandre-Antoine Davy de la Pailleterie, a Saint Dominican nobleman and Général commissaire in the Artillery in the colony of Saint-Domingue-now Haiti-and Marie-Cessette Dumas, an enslaved African woman. These issues profoundly influenced his thoughts, behaviour, and writing. At boarding schools, he was constantly taunted by his classmates because of his family situation. In almost all of his writings, he emphasized the moral purpose of literature in his play The Illegitimate Son (1858) he espoused the belief that if a man fathers an illegitimate child, then he has an obligation to legitimize the child and marry the woman (see Illegitimacy in fiction). Her agony inspired the younger Dumas to write about tragic female characters. At that time, the law allowed the elder Dumas to take the child away from his mother. ![]() In 1831 his father legally recognized him and ensured that the young Dumas received the best education possible at the Institution Goubaux and the Collège Bourbon. Dumas was born in Paris, France, the illegitimate child of Marie-Laure-Catherine Labay (1794–1868), a dressmaker, and novelist Alexandre Dumas. ![]()
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