Villers-Cotterêts is a small, drab town to the north of Paris, with a long main street of gray stone and stucco. There are a few good restaurants, a musty hotel, and a once-royal chateau that was ...

&emdash, The project to set up a statue in memory of Napoleon’s general, Alexandre Dumas, first of the name, has brought to light the curious account of his family origin written by Dumas the second, ...

THE INCREDIBLE MARQUIS: Alexandre Dumas -Herbert Gorman -Farrar & Rinehart ($5). The Man. Quadroon son of a black-mothered father, Napoleon’s reckless General Alexandre Dumas, born in July 1802, was ...

The assistant secretary of state in the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, U.S. State Department, Roger Noriega, is wrong when he writes in his Thursday OpEd, “Destiny in the hands of the Haitian ...

IN 1891 Mr. Davidson published two small volumes of extracts from Dumas’s Memoirs; but the complete work now appears in English for the first time. 1 Mrs. Waller, the translator, her publishers, and ...