Through the life, the death, the posterity, the lapse of memory, and the rehabilitation of Thomas-Alexandre Davy de La Pailleterie, aka Alexandre Dumas (1762-1806), general of the Revolutionary army. He was born a slave in Saint-Domingue (Haiti and died as a free man in Villers-Cotterets (Aisne, France), the father of the novelist and inspired the character of D'Artagnan. This is a reflection on racism, prejudice, memory of slavery in France in the 21st century, while the overseas French territories are living an unknown before crisis and while Paris is inaugurating an important monument in the memory of the general Dumas, replacing the statue that had been destroyed during world war II.