July 24th 1802, birth of French writer of romantic and historical fiction, Alexandre Dumas, best known for The Three Musketeers, The Count of Monte Cristo. Dumas father General Thomas-Alexandre Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie was born in the French colony of Saint-Domingue to a French noblewoman mother and father who was a black slave. As such Alexandre Dumas was mixed race, and proud of his African ancestry injecting a fighting spirit of identity, inherited from his father into the character of ‘D'Artagnan. During the French invasion of Egypt, Dumas' father served as commander of the French cavalry forces, seeing action at the Battle of the Pyramids, on the 20th July 1798. After invading Alexander, Napoleon and his army marched to Cairo, where his army of 25,000 met the Eygyptian Mamaluke army of 21,000 nine miles from the Pyramids of Giza. Tarot Cards shown are from the ofgraveconern Industrial Sublime Tarot, a historical inspired steampunk deck featuring the historical figures, and events from 1760 - 1848. Prints of the cards are for sale at: www.ofgraveconcern.com/industrialsublimetarot1760-1848 Follow @ofgrave.concern for more tales from history with a dark, macabre and gothic flavour. #romanticmovement #historicalfiction #historyfiction #alexandredumas #thethreemusketeers #countofmontecristo #dartagnan #frenchrevolution #napoleonbonaparte #battleofthepyramids #1798 #bornonthisday #thisdayinhistory #tarotcardart #tarotcardartwork #18thcentury #18thcenturyhistory #19thcentury #19thcenturyhistory #cairoegypt #tarotillustration #historicalillustration #tarotdeck #tarotdecks #tarotprints https://www.instagram.com/p/CRt4vU2Fred/?utm_medium=tumblr
