Language:
French
Year of publication:
1999
Titel der Quelle:
Les Cahiers du Judaïsme
Angaben zur Quelle:
6 (1999-2000) 113-118
Keywords:
Dumas, Alexandre,
;
Thiébault, Paul-Charles-François
;
Antisemitism History 1800-2000
Abstract:
Discusses Dumas' attitude toward the Jews as exemplified in his novel "La San Felice" (1865). The novel introduces Jewish bankers (probably for the first time in French fiction), portrayed as noble and very positive figures. In the same way, Dumas represents the French general and baron Paul Thiébault (1769-1846), who was one of the conquerors of Naples (1798-1800). Comments that the truth about the general was very different: he was a racist and antisemite, and wrote about it in his memoirs, which Dumas must not have read when he wrote his novel. Quotes from Thiébault's memoirs, in which he also omitted to write about a pogrom which occurred in Rome when the French army was leaving the town. Dumas wrote a whole chapter about this pogrom.
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