"Dumas Among the Gods: The Three Musketeers and Other French Fantasies," by Algis Valiunas. The American Spectator March/April 2003, p. 28-30.
". . . the real French are the loathsome varlets."
The French love Dumas only because they refuse to understand him, to recognize themselves for what they are: fearful little men, living for the pleasures of belly and groin, and thinking themselves the cream of humanity.
American Spectator
Tidbits