Page:  of 514
 

PART ONE ⋆

VILLERS - COTTERETS

Take my advice; marry a West Indian negress. They make excellent wives.

BERNARD SHAW

MY purpose is to study, through three generations, the successive
manifestations of a temperament so fantastic as to have become
legendary, originating in the union of a Frenchman of gentle birth
and a black slave-girl of San-Domingo. The men whose lives I am
about to narrate had, in different degrees and diverse forms, the same
qualities of physical strength, courage, chivalrous devotion and a
lively horror of ill-natured persons -- and one fault, the longing
to astonish, bred of a desire for vengeance. But temperament alone is
not enough to account for a man's destiny: it is never more than the
basic material on which is woven a pattern made by events and a
determined will.

Here, then, is my monument to the three Dumas.

-15-

Questia, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning. www.questia.com

Publication Information: Book Title: The Titans: A Three-Generation Biography of the Dumas. Contributors: André Maurois - author, Gerard Hopkins - transltr. Publisher: Harper & Brothers. Place of Publication: New York. Publication Year: 1957. Page Number: 15.
    
This feature allows you to create and manage separate folders for your different research projects. To view markups for a different project, make that project your current project.
This feature allows you to save a link to the publication you are reading or view all the publications you have put on your bookshelf.
This feature allows you to save a link to the page you are reading, which you can later return to from Projects.
This feature allows you to highlight words or phrases on the publication page you are reading.
This feature allows you to save a note you write on the publication page you are reading.
This feature allows you to create a citation to the page you are reading that you can paste into your paper. Highlight a passage to include that passage as a quotation.
This feature allows you to save a reference to a publication you are reading for your bibliography or generate a bibliography you can paste into your paper.
This feature allows you to print the page you are reading, including your notes or highlights (IE users must have "print background colors and image" setting selected.)
This feature allows you to look up words in encyclopedia.
  About Questia Tools
Close Window  
Questia's powerful research tools allow you to highlight, take notes, bookmark and even create instant citations and bibliographies. To use these features and save hours of work, you must create a Questia account.
Need a Questia account?
Sign up for a FREE trial now. Save time, stress and hassle, and get better grades with trusted, online research.

» Click here for our free trial

Already have a Questia account? Login now!
Error
Working...
Printing Preferences
Format for black and white printer: On Off
Print highlights: On Off
Print notes: On Off
Choose one of the options for printing:
Print this page (No Charge)
Print pages to