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Remains of French author Alexandre Dumas moved to site of honor in Paris. (Black History).

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Date: 20021223
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The remains of Alexandre Dumas, the noted Black French author who made the phrase "all for one and one for all famous in his classic novel The Three Musketeers, were recently transferred to the Pantheon, the domed Paris mausoleum where more than 60 French dignitaries of the arts, politics and science are buried.

Dumas' remains now lie alongside fellow author Victor Hugo and Nobel Prize-winning physicist Marie Curie.

Last spring French President Jacques Chirac ordered the transfer of Dumas' remains from a cemetery in the town of Villers-Cotterets, north of Paris where he ...

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