# Étienne Dumont — Representative Men character guide

> Étienne Dumont in Representative Men by Ralph Waldo Emerson.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Dumont

**First appearance:** 0006-vi-napoleon-or-the-man-of-the-world

## Who they are

Swiss writer and editor of Mirabeau's works, cited as a collaborator.

## In the story

### [Napoleon; or, the Man of the World](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/representative_men_se/chapters/vi-napoleon-or-the-man-of-the-world)

Mentioned in the anecdote about Mirabeau, where Dumont wrote a peroration for Mirabeau's speech, which Mirabeau then adopted as his own.

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