Undated. Nine pages of manuscript, complete, in French, for an article Dumas wrote for an Italian magazine on the uses of state property, and the agrarian laws proposed by the Roman Servilius Rullus. Rome used allotments of state-owned land to both colonize captured territory and as a way of relocating poor citizens away from Rome itself, to lessen the pressure they put on the government for social services and thus remove a possible source of social unrest. The Roman uses of state-owned property underlay much of the way the lands in Italy were ultimately developed, or not developed, which seems to have provided Dumas with the rationale for this article, which he brings into a modern context: at one point he cites Proudhon's statement in the French revolution of 1848 that property itself is a "public offense" and goes on to add that "property is theft" ("La propriete est un delit Public et ce que Mr Proudhon disait dans ce meme Paris en 1848 (.) La propriete c'est le vol...").Written on rectos only, in black pen on blue paper, with the subtitle of the piece crossed out and a new subtitle written below it. Signed by Dumas. A substantial manuscript on a significant issue of social philosophy by Dumas, the author of such classics as The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers. Fine. [#028208] SOLD