Family
Alexandre Lippmann was born Auguste-Alexandre Lippmann, the son of Maurice Lippmann and Marie-Alexandrine-Henriette Dumas. Although Alexandre Lippmann's father was Jewish, his maternal grandfather was Alexandre Dumas fils, the eminent author and playwright and the eldest son of Alexandre Dumas pere, novelist, dramatist and raconteur, who was the son of Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, general of the French Revolution, who was, himself, the son of a French nobleman and a Haitian slave.
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