The Black Count

Explores the life and career of Thomas Alexandre Dumas, a man almost unknown today, but whose swashbuckling exploits appear in The three musketeers and whose trials and triumphs inspired The count of Monte Cristo.

Set in

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  Saint-Domingue · Haiti

  Birthplace of Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, colonial Haiti
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• Paris · France

  Where Dumas became a revolutionary general and sword-fighting aristocrat