Definitive alexandre dumas biography book
Alexandre dumas biography book!
Definitive alexandre dumas biography book
Alexandre Dumas gave us The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers, and The Man in the Iron Mask– some of the greatest adventure novels ever written.
His real labour of love however was his Grand Dictionnaire de Cuisine, although he never saw it published. Dumas died on December 5th 1870 while Paris was under siege by the Prussians, and his great dictionary was not published until 1873, after the end of the Franco-Prussian war.
On this day in 1865, Dumas was at a dinner for twenty hosted by his friend Doctor Jobert de Lamballe.
MENU.
Potages.
Croûtes au pot.
Purée de perdreaux à la Beaufort.
Hors-d'œuvre
Crépinettes de gibier.
Petits vol-au-vent à la Monglas
Relevés
Carpe du Rhin à la Chambord.
Dinde truffée à la périgourdine.
Entrées
Filets de perdreaux à la Richelieu.
Gâteaux de volaille à la Tourville.
Noisettes de chevreuil aux truffes
Salade de homards à la Bagration.
Punch rosé.
Rôts
Poulardes truff