• despite wild differences in subject matter, 1970s Japanese science fiction television series Akumaizer 3 features frequent allusions to Alexander Dumas' famous novel The Three Musketeers?

Facts on topics related to Alexander Dumas

Mental asylum

• Christopher Smart (pictured) spent five years in a mental asylum and wrote his most important works, Jubilate Agno and A Song to David, during this time?
• Huynh Phu So, the founder of the Hoa Hao religious sect, converted his doctor after being put in a mental asylum by the French colonial forces?

Cardinal Richelieu

• the pen is mightier than the sword, an adage coined in 1839 by Edward Bulwer-Lytton for a play about Cardinal Richelieu, had numerous historical predecessors?