Toussaint, would seem to belie such neat distinction. To be fair, a history of race and masculinity, as Saint-Aubin points out, would require a sequel; in this regard, the book’s postscript might be read as a preview. The methodological slippage between cultural theory and historiography is a well-known point of disciplinary contention. Questions can be raised here with respect to certain decisions made by Saint-Aubin, including the emphasis on the fictional dimensions of political reports and the conflation of the juridical and autobiographical modes of the memoir. Nevertheless, as Saint-Aubin demonstrates convincingly, the insights provided by a range of theoretical schools of thought lead to a necessary and fruitful rethinking of historical texts and figures. In this manner, the book not only restores the place of Critical Race Studies within intersectional inquiry but also updates both with its attention to affect and masculinity. Mimi Sheller and Kobena Mercer, among others, loom large in SaintAubin ’s repertoire. Written for readers well-versed in these fields and in the history of the French Caribbean, The Memoirs of Toussaint and Isaac Louverture is a welcome contribution to a growing body of transdisciplinary scholarship. University of Pittsburgh John Patrick Walsh Schopp, Claude. Une amitié capitale: correspondance Victor Hugo-Alexandre Dumas. Paris: Bibliothèque, 2015. ISBN 978-2-909688-70-1. Pp. 318. The friendship between Hugo and Dumas père—“tous deux nés lorsque le siècle avait deux ans”(5), as Schopp puts it, evoking the opening line of Hugo’s well-known poem—was forged in the charged atmosphere of la bataille romantique, in the years leading up to the triumphant staging of Hernani. Tested early on by the very fact that both were prominent literary figures, and inevitably competitors on occasion, the relationship nevertheless endured until the death of Dumas in 1870, just a few months after the Prussian invasion had put an end to the Second Empire, allowing Hugo finally to return to France from almost two decades in political exile. Dumas greatly admired Hugo as a poet, in Schopp’s view, but thought him less gifted as a playwright or novelist, while Hugo, although more acclaimed, envied the popular success of Dumas’s romans feuilletons (9–10). The correspondence between the two, limited in the early years to relatively brief exchanges on practical matters, took on a more personal cast after Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte’s 1851 coup d’État forced Hugo to flee the country. Upon reading Les contemplations, for example, Dumas conveyed his reactions in lyrical terms, praising Hugo for turning personal suffering into great poetry:“Je conçois que, dans vos moments de doute, [...] vous demandiez à Dieu la raison de vos souffrances. Homère et Dante lui ont fait la même question [...]. L’Iliade et La divine comédie sont la réponse du Seigneur” (159). The book’s subtitle notwithstanding, relatively few pages are devoted to actual correspondence between Hugo and Dumas. In tracing the ebb and flow of their relationship over the years, Schopp draws on a variety of other 238 FRENCH REVIEW 91.1 Reviews 239 sources: Dumas’s Mes mémoires; letters from or to acquaintances of each author; an article accusing Dumas of plagiarism, published in a journal associated with Hugo; articles by Dumas himself on the publication of Les voix intérieures or the reprise of Marion Delorme at the Théâtre-Français; periodic entries from Adèle Hugo’s diary; Dumas’s letter to his son in 1862, with his dismissive assessment of Les misérables, “une œuvre ennuyeuse, mal rêvée dans son plan, mal venue dans son résultat” (181); or his invited contribution to the Figaro on the occasion of the restaging of Hernani at the Comédie-Française during the 1867 Exposition universelle.Schopp’s own account of the relationship between the two literary figures is not always easy to follow. His treatment is concise, at times even cryptic, and the numerous endnotes that punctuate his narrative turn out frequently to yield little more than a simple reference that might have been provided parenthetically. At the end of the book as well is an extensive...