Intermission Painting by Rene Magritte

As the author of the tremendously popular novel, The Three Musketeers, Alexander Dumas is well known all over the world. This literary masterpiece of Dumas had gained immense popularity not only in his own country, France, but also in many other countries of the world. In this novel, the art of story telling of Dumas rises to its perfection. His earlier play Henry and his Court (1829) established French romantic historical drama; trends of which were still present in his subsequent works