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The History Files #42: The Black Count
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This week we take a look at the origins of Alexander Dumas’ legendary literary figure, the Count of Monte Cristo. New writers are often told “write what you know”, and Dumas did exactly that. The heroic protagonists in his epic adventure tales were based on… his father; a larger-than-life individual who not only provided the characters for his writer son’s stories but many of their feats of derring-do.
Show notes and links:
- James II of England
- Elizabeth II
- Fort Ross, California (fortross.org)
- 1925 serum run to Nome (wikipedia.org)
- Hitler Becomes Army Commander (historyplace.com)
- The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo, Tom Reiss (amazon.com)
- The Count of Monte Cristo (2002) (imdb.com)
- Fusil Charleville (wikipedia.org)
- The Count of Monte Cristo
90 episodes
Archived series ("Inactive feed" status)
When? This feed was archived on March 07, 2020 01:28 (). Last successful fetch was on April 25, 2019 06:35 ()
Why? Inactive feed status. Our servers were unable to retrieve a valid podcast feed for a sustained period.
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Manage episode 122533137 series 116494
Sponsored by:
- Audible.com, the best place on the Internet for audiobooks. Listeners of The History Files can get a free audiobook download and 30 day free trial! Over 180,000 titles to choose from for your iPhone, Android, Kindle or mp3 player.
This week we take a look at the origins of Alexander Dumas’ legendary literary figure, the Count of Monte Cristo. New writers are often told “write what you know”, and Dumas did exactly that. The heroic protagonists in his epic adventure tales were based on… his father; a larger-than-life individual who not only provided the characters for his writer son’s stories but many of their feats of derring-do.
Show notes and links:
- James II of England
- Elizabeth II
- Fort Ross, California (fortross.org)
- 1925 serum run to Nome (wikipedia.org)
- Hitler Becomes Army Commander (historyplace.com)
- The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo, Tom Reiss (amazon.com)
- The Count of Monte Cristo (2002) (imdb.com)
- Fusil Charleville (wikipedia.org)
- The Count of Monte Cristo
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