The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo Thomas-Alexandre Davy de la Pailleterie, was born in Jérémie, Saint-Domingue (Haiti) in 1762, the son of the Marquis and Marie-Cessette Dumas, his Haitian slave. In addition to being the father of French novelist Alexandre Dumas, he was the grandfather of playwright Alexandre Dumas, known for "La Dame aux Camélias", the source for Giuseppe Verdi's "La traviata". Dumas was born the son of a renegade French nobleman and his black slave in 1762 in the French sugar colony of Saint Domingue (the future Haiti); at the time of his birth, his father was living on the run from the royal authorities
La Cage aux Folles II La Cage aux Folles II La Cage aux Folles II is a 1980 French comedy film and the sequel to 1979's "La Cage aux Folles". It is directed by Édouard Molinaro and stars Michel Serrault as Albin, (stage name "ZaZa"), the female impersonator star of a gay night-club revue, and Ugo Tognazzi as Renato, his partner of over twenty years. A spy plants a capsule of microfilm on Albin and from then on spies and government agents pursue him. Albin and Renato travel to Italy to hide at Renato's mother's farm. At each point along the way we see the