Alexander Dumas the creator of the Three Musketeers was a black Haitian-French writer.
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French national of mixed race. Born in Paris. Genius writer. Alexander Dumas: 
His father Thomas Alexandre Dumas was a famous black general in Napoleon's army. There's a book called "The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo" that won the Pulitzer Prize about him.
White people tend to think A. Dumas was white.