Top 3 Quotes & Sayings by Thomas-Alexandre Dumas

Thomas-Alexandre Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie was a Saint Dominican Creole general in Revolutionary France. Along with his French contemporary Joseph Serrant, Toussaint Louverture in Saint-Domingue and Abram Petrovich Gannibal in Imperial Russia, Thomas-Alexandre Dumas is notable as a man of African descent leading European troops as a general officer. He was the first person of color in the French military to become brigadier general, divisional general, and general-in-chief of a French army.