Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds (Spanish: "D'Artacan y los Tres Mosqueperros"; Japanese: ワンワン三銃士 [Wan Wan Sanjuushi; lit., "The Woof Woof Three Musketeers"]) is a Spanish-Japanese animated adaptation of the classic Alexandre Dumas story of d'Artagnan and "The Three Musketeers". Most of the characters are anthropomorphizations of dogs, hence the title of the cartoon; although there are a few exceptions, most notably Dogtanian's two sidekicks Pip the mouse and Planchet the bear, among several others. The story, set in 17th century France, follows a young Dogtanian (D'Artacan in the original Spanish version and Darutaniyan (ダルタニヤン) in
Alexandre Dumas founded and published the newspaper "L'Indipendente", which supported the Italian unification effort. In 1864, he returned to Paris. Though married, in the tradition of Frenchmen of higher social class, Dumas had numerous affairs (allegedly as many as forty). In his lifetime, he was known to have at least four illegitimate children; although twentieth-century scholars found that Dumas fathered another three other children out of wedlock. He acknowledged and assisted his son, Alexandre Dumas, to become a successful novelist and playwright. They are known as Alexandre Dumas ('father') and Alexandre Dumas ('son'). Among his affairs, in 1866, Dumas had one with