Volume 55, Number 4 · March 20, 2008
The Pens of the Musketeer
By Graham Robb
Georges
by Alexandre Dumas, translated from the French by Tina A. Kover, edited with an introduction and notes by Werner Sollors, and with a foreword by Jamaica Kincaid
Modern Library, 304 pp., $24.95
The Last Cavalier: Being the Adventures of Count Sainte-Hermine in the Age of Napoleon
by Alexandre Dumas, translated from the French by Lauren Yoder
Pegasus, 751 pp., $32.00
On November 30, 2002, Alexandre Dumas père (1802–1870) was enshrined in the Panthéon in Paris, alongside the 'great men' (and one 'great woman,' Marie Curie) of 'the grateful fatherland.' Despite Dumas's wish to be buried with his parents, his native town of Villers-Cotterêts had been forced to cede his treasured remains to the capital. A hundred actors dressed as characters from Dumas's novels accompanied him to his new resting place. The coffin was draped in a blue velvet cloth inscribed with the motto of the Three Musketeers, 'All for one, one for all.'
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