Episode 2
An opulent lifestyle is surrendered when the young gallant enlists in the French Army. Biography of the father of novelist Alexandre Dumas. From November 2012.
Tom Reiss's new biography about the novelist Alexandre Dumas' father reveals that he led a life of derring-do that is captured in his son's novels, The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers. Today, an opulent lifestyle is surrendered when the young gallant enlists in the French Army.
Read by Hugh Quarshie.
Abridged by Richard Hamilton.
Produced by Elizabeth Allard.
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