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DUMAS ALEXANDRE Pere: (1802-1870) French Writer whose works include The Three Musketeers. A very interesting A.L.S. ...

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DUMAS ALEXANDRE Pere: (1802-1870) French Writer whose works include The Three Musketeers. A very interesting A.L.S., `Al Dumas´, two pages, 4to, n.p., 10th June [1849], to Colonel Feray, in French. Dumas sends his condolences to his correspondent, son in law of Marshal Bugeaud who has passed away, stating in part `Allow me, as a man close to your family by the most real links, those of recognition, to lament together with you the horrible disaster which has hit you..´. Dumas explains that he has been also himself ill, and did not learn about the Marshal´s news until yesterday, saying `Poor Marshal. I had dinner with him eight days ago at the President´s home, and I did wish him at his 80 years the boulet de Turenne or of Brewick...´, Dumas referring to a glorious military death. Creasing to the upper part of the letter. G Thomas Robert Bugeaud (1784-1849) French Marshal, Governor of Algeria. He died of cholera the day before the present letter was written.