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Alexandre Dumas is born. He was born in Villers-Cotterêts, France. He was born to Marie Louise Labouret and General Thomas-Alexandre Davy de la Pailleterie. His Dumas family name came from Alexandre's grandmother who was an enslaved Hatian woman.
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The US buys part of Florida from Spain for $5 million. It is also known as the Adams–Onís Treaty. It set up a boundary between the US and Mexico ( it was known as New Spain then). It also came in the middle of tensions from boundaries in North America and the US and Great Britain from the end of the revolutionary war.
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The French sculptor Frederic-August Bartholdi is born. He was born in the Alsace region of France. He was the creator of the Statue of Liberty which was gifted from France to the United States.
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On January 2, 1839, the first photo of the Moon was taken. It was taken by Louis Daguerre.He was a french artist and photographer. He is also known as one of the fathersw of photography.
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The Three Musketeers was written from March 14, 1844 to July 1, 1844. They were written as serials. This means that they were written one chapter at a time and were published in the Parisian newspaper Le Siècle.
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Republican riots forced King Louis-Philippe to abdicate and flee to England. The revolutionary events ended the Orleans monarchy (1830–48) and led to the creation of the French Second Republic. In the following months, the government bacame more conservative.
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On December 20, 1848, Louis Napoleon Bonaparte starts his first term as the first president of the French Republic. The elections were held on December 10-11 and the results were announced on the 20th. Bonaparte won 74.2% of the votes.
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One year after he took over the governemnt, Bonaparte becomes the Napoleon III of France. He ended the Second Republic and created the Second French Empire. This made him the dictator of France.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe published Uncle Tom's Cabin. It was sold 300,000 times in a year. In 16 months, it was sold one million times. It is about Uncle Tom and a group of other slaves that are being sold and their goal toward freedom.
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On December 5, 1870. Alexandre Dumas dies. He dies in his son's house in Puys, France. He was then buried in the cemetary of Villers-Cotterêts. In 2002, his body was moved to the Panthéon in Paris. He was moved there with many other great French literaries.