SYMHC Classics: Alexandre Dumas Pere
Stuff You Missed in History Class
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🗓️ 8 November 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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This 2019 episode covers Alexandre Dumas, who wrote hundreds and hundreds of works, including “The Three Musketeers,” “The Count of Monte Cristo,” and even a dictionary of cuisine.
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| 0:36.7 | Happy Saturday. Today's Saturday classic is our episode on Alexandre Dumas Per, who got a name drop in our episode on the Ludin Possessions back in October. |
| 0:47.7 | Tracy has been meaning to bring out this classic since then, but listen, time makes fools of us all. |
| 0:53.5 | But it's here it is now. This originally |
| 0:56.5 | came out on February 27th, 2019. So enjoy. Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History Class, |
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| 1:13.6 | Hello and welcome to the podcast. |
| 1:15.5 | I'm Tracy V. Wilson. |
| 1:16.9 | And I'm Holly Fry. |
| 1:18.3 | Earlier we talked about General Toma, Alexander Dumas, who was the son of an aristocrat and an enslaved woman from the French colony of San Damang, which is now Haiti. |
| 1:30.0 | One of his children was Alexander Dumas, known today as Alexander Dumas, to distinguish him from his own son, who also had the same |
| 1:37.0 | name, because we wanted to be really confusing with this trio of men and this family. |
| 1:43.8 | Alexander Dumasper, of course, wrote such classics as the Three Musketeers and the Count |
| 1:48.5 | of Monte Cristo and both of those works, sequels, and eight Marie Antoinette romances, |
| 1:54.1 | and a bunch of other novels and plays and essays and travel books and memoirs and a dictionary |
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