The man who wrote some of the most creatively amazing pieces known to man, such as
The Three Musketeers and
The Man in the Iron Mask, was still not treated as equal. It took a PROTEST for him to get DUG UP out of the ground to get his just due.
QuoteIn France, literary and artistic heroes are traditionally buried in a special mausoleum called La Panth?on. But the racism that plagued Dumas in life prevented his being laid to rest there in 1870.
Protests over such treatment to one of France's literary greats eventually resulted in Dumas' reburial on his 200th birthday in 2002. France's then-President Jacques Chirac gave the eulogy. He also escorted the coffin into La Panth?on along with a series of guards and pallbearers dressed as Dumas' Musketeers.
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