My Memoirs, Vol. V, 1831 to 1832
1844
My Memoirs, Vol. V, 1831 to 1832
1844
Translated by E. M. (Emily Mary) Waller
Here is Dumas in uniform, and it is magnificent. This fifth volume of his memoirs captures the writer at his most unexpectedly physical: not hunched over a manuscript in a Parisian garret, but astride a horse in artillery blues, navigating the volatile early years of the July Monarchy. The year is 1831. The Revolution of 1830 has toptered one king and installed another, and Dumas finds himself embedded with the Parisian artillery, rubbing shoulders with General La Fayette and plotting the seizure of the Chamber of Deputies alongside radical politicians like Odilon Barrot and Benjamin Constant. What emerges is not merely political memoir but something rarer: the spectacle of a great novelist turning his eye upon his own life as if it were raw material. The camaraderie is vivid, the tensions palpable, the political landscape a shifting terrain of fragile alliances and grand ambitions. Dumas the man proves as fascinating as Dumas the creator of musketeers and monte Cristo. For readers who want to see how the author of The Count of Monte Cristo lived history before he wrote it.
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