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Alexandre Dumas’ father Thomas-Alexandre was descended from a French noble and a slave of African descent. He also became the highest-ranking man of mixed African descent ever in a European army, during the French Revolutionary Wars. Do we know of attitudes and/or discrimation towards him in France?
As far as I know, at the time people who came from France's colonial possessions to the metropole were usually a) quite rare and b) looked down up. So that while treatment of people of African descent in the French colonies might have been less harsh than say in the British colonies; the political climate…