«Stopover in Tangier 1846» in bookshops: When Alexandre Dumas Père visited the capital of the Strait

Afrique-Orient editions have just published "Stopover in Tangier 1846". This work includes the Tangier part of the Véloce or Tangier, Algiers and Tunis (written in 1847, published in 1848), by Alexandre Dumas Père.In his preamble, J-P. Péroncel-Hugoz, senior reporter, member of the Society of World Editors, former director of the Nadir (Paris) and Bab (Casablanca) collections, author notably of Morocco through the small end of the opera glass (2010), under whose direction this book was published, recalls that for Alexandre Dumas Père (1802-1870), the mind certainly prepared by some good readings on the "Empire of Morocco", three days were enough to draw from it over a hundred pages an opulent waterfall portrait of Tangier.The doyenne of Moroccan cities, founded by the giant Antaeus, whom Hercules killed, and later endowed, with Bombay, by a Portuguese infanta, soon to be Queen of Englan…