compagnie (Paris: Hauquelin et Bautruche, 1845).
5
“Lettre IV: 5 mai 1845,” Vicomte de Launay, Lettres Parisiennes, ed. Émile de
Girardin, 4 vols. (Paris: Michel Lévy, 1857), IV: 192.
6
Eric Martone, Finding Monte Cristo: Alexandre Dumas and the French Atlantic World (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2018), 13-49.
7
See: Christiane Neave and Digby Neave, eds. Iconographie d’Alexandre Dumas père (Marly-le-Roi: Éditions Champflour/La Société des Amis d’Alexandre Dumas,
1991).
8
Hippolyte de Villemessant, Mémoires d’un journaliste: Les Hommes de mon temps, 2
nd
series (Paris: E. Dentu, 1872), 236.
9
Victor Pavie, Les revenants: Alexandre Dumas père (Angers: Librairie Germain et
G. Grassin, 1881), in Alexandre Dumas en bras de chemise, ed. Claude Schopp (Paris: Maisonneuve & Larose, 2002), 56.
10
A. Craig Bell, Alexandre Dumas: A Biography and Study (London: Cassell, 1950),
ix-x.
11
André Maurois, Les Trois Dumas (Paris: Librairie Hachette, 1957), 11-12.
12
While a definitive list of which novels comprise the “Drama of France” has not
been created, there is general agreement on the inclusion of the Valois trilogy
(Queen Margot, Madame de Monsoreau, The Forty-Five Guardsmen), the
Musketeers trilogy (The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After, Vicomte de Bragelonne), the French Revolution pentalogy (Joseph Balsamo, The Queen’s Necklace, Taking the Bastille, The Comtesse de Charny, The Chevalier de Maison- Rouge), the Napoléon trilogy (The Companions of Jéhu, The Whites and the Blues,
The Comte de Sainte-Hermine), and The Count of Monte Cristo. On Dumas’s novels
comprising a “Drama of France,” see: Claude Schopp, “Le Testament perdu,” in
Alexandre Dumas, Le Chevalier de Sainte-Hermine (Paris: Phébus, 2005), 47-66;
Youjun Peng, La nation chez Alexandre Dumas (Paris: L’Harmattan, 2003).
13
Hippolyte Parigot, Alexandre Dumas père (Paris: Librairie Hachette, 1902), 140-
141.
14
For an explanation of the concept of “symbolically white,” see: Susan Koshy,
“Morphing Race into Ethnicity: Asian Americans and Critical Transformations of
Whiteness,” boundary 2 28, 1 (Spring 2001), 168.
15
See: William B. Cohen, The French Encounter with Africans: White Response to Blacks, 1530-1880, reprint ed. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2003); Alice
L. Conklin, Sarah Fishman, and Robert Zaretsky, France and Its Empire Since 1870 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011); Raymond Betts, Assimilation and Association in French Colonial Theory, 1890-1914, new ed. (Lincoln: University of
Nebraska Press, 2005); Gary Wilder, The French Imperial Nation-State: Négritude and Colonial Humanism between the Two World Wars (Chicago: University of
Alexandre Dumas as a French Symbol since 1870
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Chicago Press, 2005); Dino Costantini, Mission civilisatrice: Le rôle histoire coloniale dans la construction de l’identité politique française (Paris: Découverte,
2008); Rogers Brubaker, Citizenship and Nationhood in France and Germany (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992).
16
See: Yves Lequin, ed., La Mosaîque France: histoire des étrangers et de l’immigration en France (Paris: Larousse, 1988); Gérard Noiriel, The French Melting Pot: Immigration, Citizenship, and National Identity, trans. Geoffroy de
Laforcade (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1996); Alec G. Hargreaves,